nomad
\ˈnəʊ.mæd\
The verdict
“nomad” is uncommon French (frequency #58,115 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,115
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nomade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nomad · nomad · French
nomad · rank #58,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,115
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH negra
Nearest frequency peer: negra (-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 « nomad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mélangeur
mélangeur
41,890 corpus weight
- mûrit
mûrit
41,889 corpus weight
- negra
negra
41,887 corpus weight
- nomad
nomad
41,886 corpus weight
- norte
norte
41,884 corpus weight
- Northumberl…
Northumberland
41,883 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nomad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nomad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈnəʊ.mæd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nomad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nomad is uncommon French at frequency #58,115 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈnəʊ.mæd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nomade.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nomad in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nomad, spelled N-O-M-A-D.
Definition
- 1Nomade.
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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