nori
\nɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“nori” is uncommon French (frequency #69,273 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,273
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Algue rouge comestible, utilisée dans la cuisine japonaise, par exemple pour entourer les makizushis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nori · nori · French
nori · rank #69,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,273
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noirâtres
Nearest frequency peer: noirâtres (-2 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 « nori »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nim
nim
30,733 corpus weight
- Niortais
Niortais
30,732 corpus weight
- noirâtres
noirâtres
30,730 corpus weight
- nori
nori
30,728 corpus weight
- notif
notif
30,726 corpus weight
- NSC
NSC
30,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nori » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nori |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nori » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nori is uncommon French at frequency #69,273 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Algue rouge comestible, utilisée dans la cuisine japonaise, par exemple pour entourer les makizushis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nori in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nori, spelled N-O-R-I.
Definition
- 1Algue rouge comestible, utilisée dans la cuisine japonaise, par exemple pour entourer les makizushis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nori appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était déjà l’après-midi. Je prépare pourtant un repas du matin : du riz, de la soupe de miso, des œufs et des nori. Je mets dans la soupe des morceaux de l’aubergine que madame S. a apportée. C’était le petit-déjeuner que ma mère prenait tous les matins avec mon père.
Du phosphore : la nori et le wakamé en contiennent 2,5 et 3 fois plus que le thon.
This word in other languages
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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