nonchalante
\nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“nonchalante” is uncommon French (frequency #75,046 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,046
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de nonchalant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonchalante · nonchalante · French
nonchalante · rank #75,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,046
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noircit
Nearest frequency peer: noircit (-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 « nonchalante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nihilistes
nihilistes
24,959 corpus weight
- noircit
noircit
24,956 corpus weight
- nonchalante
nonchalante
24,955 corpus weight
- Noureev
Noureev
24,954 corpus weight
- numéroter
numéroter
24,953 corpus weight
- objecteurs
objecteurs
24,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nonchalante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonchalante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nonchalante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nonchalante is uncommon French at frequency #75,046 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɔ̃.ʃa.lɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de nonchalant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nonchalante, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nonchalante, spelled N-O-N-C-H-A-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de nonchalant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nonchalante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme un oiseau choisit la bonne place dans l’arbre où il veut vivre, mon village a choisi son coin dans l’argile lourde où se couline l’Aisne nonchalante, ramassant au passage l’eau des sources qui « résurgent » de ce sol imperméable.
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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