nonna
The verdict
“nonna” is an uncommon French word, ranked #83,200 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,200
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grand-mère, aïeule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nonna” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nonna is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #83,200 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grand-mère, aïeule.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nonna, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nonna, spelled N-O-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Grand-mère, aïeule.
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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Using “nonna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-N-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.