nonante
\nɔ.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“nonante” is uncommon French (frequency #59,482 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,482
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatre-vingt-neuf/huitante-neuf plus un, soit neuf fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 90.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonante · nonante · French
nonante · rank #59,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,482
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nesle
Nearest frequency peer: Nesle (-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 « nonante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nadja
Nadja
40,525 corpus weight
- naîtront
naîtront
40,523 corpus weight
- Nesle
Nesle
40,521 corpus weight
- nonante
nonante
40,519 corpus weight
- nuancés
nuancés
40,514 corpus weight
- nuke
nuke
40,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nonante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nonante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nonante is uncommon French at frequency #59,482 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɔ.nɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatre-vingt-neuf/huitante-neuf plus un, soit neuf fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 90.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nonante, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nonante, spelled N-O-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Quatre-vingt-neuf/huitante-neuf plus un, soit neuf fois dix, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 90.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nonante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La « Firestone » obtenait en location un terrain de 1 million d’acres pour une durée de nonante-neuf ans, au prix de 6 cents par acre et par année.
Nonante lieues en quatre étapes et une demie. Tu calcules ? vingt lieues par jour ! Diâle, on routait dur en ce temps-là.
Synonyms
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); 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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