nonce
\nɔ̃s\
The verdict
“nonce” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,105
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prélat qui est l’ambassadeur du pape, accrédité auprès d’un gouvernement étranger, chargé de représenter les intérêts du Saint-Siège à l’étranger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonce · nonce · French
nonce · rank #26,105 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,105
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nommant
Nearest frequency peer: nommant (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nonce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- niqab
niqab
73,898 corpus weight
- nommant
nommant
73,897 corpus weight
- nonce
nonce
73,896 corpus weight
- nor
nor
73,895 corpus weight
- nostalgiques
nostalgiques
73,894 corpus weight
- Np
Np
73,893 corpus weight
What this shows « nonce » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nonce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around nonce (IPA \nɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,105 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for nonce, with forms such as "nnonce", "nocne", and "noncce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Note", "noyé", "nope", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 nonce, spelled N-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Prélat qui est l’ambassadeur du pape, accrédité auprès d’un gouvernement étranger, chargé de représenter les intérêts du Saint-Siège à l’étranger.
- 2Député à la diète polonaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nonce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nonce ordinaire, ambassadeur du pape établi et accrédité à titre permanent.
Nonce extraordinaire, celui qui est chargé d'une mission temporaire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnonce
- nocne
- noncce
- nonec
- nonnce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nonce - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).