non seulement
\nɔ̃ sœl.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“non seulement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pas uniquement. — Note d’usage : Cette locution est ordinairement suivie de mais, mais encore ou mais aussi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | non seulement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \nɔ̃ sœl.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “non seulement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for non seulement is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ sœl.mɑ̃\. 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: "Pas uniquement. — Note d’usage : Cette locution est ordinairement suivie de mais, mais encore ou mais aussi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for non seulement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
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 non seulement, spelled N-O-N- -S-E-U-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pas uniquement. — Note d’usage : Cette locution est ordinairement suivie de mais, mais encore ou mais aussi.
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Using “non seulement”
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- The one correct French spelling is N-O-N- -S-E-U-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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