nominalement

\nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\

/\nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\/ adv

The verdict

“nominalement” is uncommon French (frequency #77,747 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,747
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière nominale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nominalement · nominalement · French

nominalement · rank #77,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,747
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH Nissa

Nearest frequency peer: Nissa (-2 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 « nominalement »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nominalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for nominalement
PropertyValue
Headwordnominalement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#77,747
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « nominalement » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).nominalementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Nissa » (#77,745), « novella » (#77,750), « nervis » (#77,742). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nominalement » est au #77,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

nominalement is uncommon French at frequency #77,747 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’une manière nominale.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nominalement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 nominalement, spelled N-O-M-I-N-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’une manière nominale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nominalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les capteurs sismiques à courtes périodes, de moindre sensibilité et qui peuvent eux fonctionner sur le pont, ont fonctionné nominalement lors des vérifications.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nominalement"?
"nominalement" is spelled N-O-M-I-N-A-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\.
What does "nominalement" mean?
As an adverb, "nominalement" means: D’une manière nominale.
How do you pronounce "nominalement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nominalement" is \nɔ.mi.nal.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nominalement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nominalement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list