nonna
The verdict
“nonna” is uncommon French (frequency #83,200 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,200
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand-mère, aïeule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonna · nonna · French
nonna · rank #83,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,200
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Noura
Nearest frequency peer: Noura (+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 « nonna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neurologues
neurologues
16,805 corpus weight
- Ngozi
Ngozi
16,804 corpus weight
- Nicolae
Nicolae
16,803 corpus weight
- nonna
nonna
16,801 corpus weight
- Noura
Noura
16,800 corpus weight
- nucléiques
nucléiques
16,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nonna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « nonna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nonna is uncommon French at frequency #83,200 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nonna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les petits Ritals disent « vous » à leurs parents, les parents disent « vous » à la nonna, la grand-mère. Il y a toujours une nonna, entortillée de chiffons noirs, égreneuse de chapelet, tapie dans le coin de la cuisinière, qui entretient le feu, tient chaude la minestra et surgit à la fenêtre pour appeler les gosses à l’heure de la soupe.
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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