nombre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#282
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
nombre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet de base des mathématiques, que l’on peut rapporter aux notions de pluralité, d’ensemble, de correspondance, mais qui n’est pas susceptible d’être strictement défini. Pronounced \nɔ̃bʁ\. It ranks #282 in French word frequency. Often confused with nome and notre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nombre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nombre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #282 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for nombre, with forms such as "nmobre", "nnombre", and "nobmre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "nome", "notre", "nommé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nombre, spelled N-O-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet de base des mathématiques, que l’on peut rapporter aux notions de pluralité, d’ensemble, de correspondance, mais qui n’est pas susceptible d’être strictement défini.
- 2Particularité morphologique indiquant s'il est question d'une ou de plusieurs choses, notions ou personnes.
- 3Quantité indéterminée.
- 4Multitude.
- 5Le livre des Nombres, ou les Nombres, quatrième des livres de Moïse, ainsi appelé parce qu’il contient le dénombrement du peuple hébreu.
- 6Valeur mystique ou symbolique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nmobre,nnombre,nobmre,nombbre,nomber,nombrre,nommbre,nomrbe,onmbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nombre
Misspelling Variants of "nombre"
Frequency rank: #282 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our French index: