non-violent
\nɔ̃ vjɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“non-violent” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à ou partisan de la non-violence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-non-violent · non-violent · French
non-violent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | non-violent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ̃ vjɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « non-violent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
non-violent is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɔ̃ vjɔ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à ou partisan de la non-violence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for non-violent, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is non-violent, spelled N-O-N---V-I-O-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif à ou partisan de la non-violence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how non-violent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En France, le plus ancien mouvement non-violent est la branche française du Mouvement International de la Réconciliation (créée en 1923).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.