nonchalant
\nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“nonchalant” is uncommon French (frequency #57,463 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,463
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui apporte de l’insouciance, un manque de zèle, d’ardeur à tout ce qu’il doit faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonchalant · nonchalant · French
nonchalant · rank #57,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,463
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nolife
Nearest frequency peer: nolife (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nonchalant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nbre
nbre
42,541 corpus weight
- nolife
nolife
42,539 corpus weight
- nonchalant
nonchalant
42,538 corpus weight
- nourricière
nourricière
42,537 corpus weight
- nourrissaie…
nourrissaient
42,536 corpus weight
- noyades
noyades
42,535 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nonchalant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonchalant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nonchalant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nonchalant is uncommon French at frequency #57,463 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui apporte de l’insouciance, un manque de zèle, d’ardeur à tout ce qu’il doit faire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nonchalant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nonchalant, spelled N-O-N-C-H-A-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui apporte de l’insouciance, un manque de zèle, d’ardeur à tout ce qu’il doit faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nonchalant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sigognac prit sur la table un petit volume dont la reliure ternie portait estampé l’écusson de sa famille, et se mit à en tourner les feuilles d’un doigt nonchalant.
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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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