nonnette
French, noun/nɔ.nɛt/
nonnette is spelled N-O-N-N-E-T-T-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nonnette is a French feminine noun meaning “type of gingerbread with aniseed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit pain d’épice de forme arrondie, parfumé à l’anis”.
What does nonnette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetype of gingerbread with aniseed
- 2
datedfeminineyoung nun
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit pain d’épice de forme arrondie, parfumé à l’anis. 2. Petit pain d’épice de forme arrondie, fourré de marmelade d'orange. 3. Nonnette cendrée : autre nom de la mésange nonnette (Poecile palustris, anciennement Parus palustris). 4. Nom vulgaire d’une bernache (bernache nonnette, Branta leucopsis).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nonnette
- nonnettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nonnette?
- /nɔ.nɛt/
- \nɔ.nɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nonnette in French?
nonnette appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).