noma
\nɔ.ma\
The verdict
“noma” is uncommon French (frequency #71,743 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,743
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un ulcère qui attaque la peau, ainsi que les tissus mous et l’os du visage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noma · noma · French
noma · rank #71,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,743
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nok
Nearest frequency peer: nok (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « noma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- NMD
NMD
28,262 corpus weight
- nok
nok
28,259 corpus weight
- noma
noma
28,258 corpus weight
- nomi
nomi
28,257 corpus weight
- noyait
noyait
28,256 corpus weight
- négresses
négresses
28,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noma is uncommon French at frequency #71,743 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’un ulcère qui attaque la peau, ainsi que les tissus mous et l’os du visage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for noma, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is noma, spelled N-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nom d’un ulcère qui attaque la peau, ainsi que les tissus mous et l’os du visage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le noma consiste en une gangrène, non contagieuse, du visage qui peut se déclencher très rapidement, commençant au niveau de la bouche, puis gagne les lèvres, le nez, les joues et l’os sous-jacent …
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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