nords
\nɔʁ\
The verdict
“nords” is uncommon French (frequency #99,423 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,423
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nords · nords · French
nords · rank #99,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,423
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nominativement
Nearest frequency peer: nominativement (-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 « nords »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- NNN
NNN
582 corpus weight
- nominativem…
nominativement
579 corpus weight
- nords
nords
578 corpus weight
- normativité
normativité
577 corpus weight
- Nouadhibou
Nouadhibou
575 corpus weight
- Nowak
Nowak
573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nords » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nords |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nords » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nords is uncommon French at frequency #99,423 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nord.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nords, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nords, spelled N-O-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nord.
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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