nonne
\nɔn\
The verdict
“nonne” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,628) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,628
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nonne · nonne · French
nonne · rank #31,628 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,628
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neurologue
Nearest frequency peer: neurologue (-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 « nonne »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- NCIS
NCIS
68,376 corpus weight
- neurologue
neurologue
68,374 corpus weight
- nonne
nonne
68,373 corpus weight
- notifié
notifié
68,372 corpus weight
- novo
novo
68,371 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantisme
68,370 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nonne » 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 | nonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nonne »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nonne is neighbouring look-alikes ("Note", "noyé", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \nɔn\. Frequency #31,628 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Religieuse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for nonne, with forms such as "nnone", "nnonne", and "nonen". 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, "Note", "noyé", "nope", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nonne, spelled N-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Religieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plassans, quand il s’était bien cadenassé, se disait : « Je suis chez moi », avec la satisfaction d’un bourgeois dévot, qui, sans crainte pour sa caisse, certain de n’être réveillé par aucun tapage, va réciter ses prières et se mettre voluptueusement au lit. Il n’y a pas de cité, je crois, qui se soit entêtée si tard à s’enfermer comme une nonne.
J’arrivai à deux heures, après avoir voyagé entre deux nonnes du couvent de Sainte-Nino, deux nonnes vêtues de bure sombre et coiffées d’une sorte de chapeau haut de forme noir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnone
- nnonne
- nonen
- onnne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nonne - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).