nom de jeune fille
\nɔ̃ də ʒœn fij\
The verdict
“nom de jeune fille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille d’une femme avant qu’elle se marie si elle décide d’utiliser le nom de son époux comme nom d’usage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nom de jeune fille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃ də ʒœn fij\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nom de jeune fille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nom de jeune fille is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ də ʒœn fij\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille d’une femme avant qu’elle se marie si elle décide d’utiliser le nom de son époux comme nom d’usage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nom de jeune fille, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nom de jeune fille, spelled N-O-M- -D-E- -J-E-U-N-E- -F-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’une femme avant qu’elle se marie si elle décide d’utiliser le nom de son époux comme nom d’usage.
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Using “nom de jeune fille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-M- -D-E- -J-E-U-N-E- -F-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.