none
\nɔn\
The verdict
“none” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,067) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,067
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième partie du jour, qui commençait à la fin de la neuvième heure, ou, selon notre manière de compter, vers trois heures de l’après-midi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-none · none · French
none · rank #36,067 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,067
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nocives
Nearest frequency peer: nocives (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « none »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- naîtra
naîtra
63,937 corpus weight
- nitro
nitro
63,936 corpus weight
- nocives
nocives
63,935 corpus weight
- none
none
63,934 corpus weight
- normaliser
normaliser
63,933 corpus weight
- nostra
nostra
63,932 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « none » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | none |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « none »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for none is neighbouring look-alikes ("nos", "nue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \nɔn\. Frequency #36,067 among 1,563 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for none, with forms such as "nnoe", "noen", and "onne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nos", "nue", "Not", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is none, spelled N-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Quatrième partie du jour, qui commençait à la fin de la neuvième heure, ou, selon notre manière de compter, vers trois heures de l’après-midi.
- 2Une des heures canoniales.
- 3Neuvième denier qui permet de jouir de certains biens. ^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how none appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant de la laisser seule, le moine lui indiqua la liturgie des heures, matines, laudes, tierce, sexte, none, vêpres, complies et vigiles, et devant son air concentré et perdu, il lui dit que chaque horaire était noté sur une feuille posée sur le bureau...
La bataille durait depuis none, quand ceux de Bruges lâchèrent le pied et tournèrent le dos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnoe
- noen
- onne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of none - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "none", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).