noria
\nɔ.ʁja\
The verdict
“noria” is uncommon French (frequency #75,949 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,949
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine hydraulique, composée d’une chaîne sans fin et de seaux à renversement, que l’on emploie pour les irrigations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noria · noria · French
noria · rank #75,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,949
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nouant
Nearest frequency peer: nouant (+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 « noria »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nesta
nesta
24,058 corpus weight
- Neustadt
Neustadt
24,057 corpus weight
- neutral
neutral
24,056 corpus weight
- noria
noria
24,052 corpus weight
- nouant
nouant
24,051 corpus weight
- négocia
négocia
24,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noria » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noria |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.ʁja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noria » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noria is uncommon French at frequency #75,949 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.ʁja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
noria has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is noria, spelled N-O-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Machine hydraulique, composée d’une chaîne sans fin et de seaux à renversement, que l’on emploie pour les irrigations.
- 2Tout appareil de roue hydraulique pour l’exhaure de l’eau.
- 3Appareil pour élever des matières.
- 4Stock en rotation permanente.
- 5Rotation ininterrompue de véhicules qui vont et viennent.
- 6Chaîne ininterrompue d’objets mobiles ou de personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces plantations sont irriguées au moyen de canaux dérivés des sources ou des cours d’eau, ou de norias, de machines mises en mouvement par un chameau ou une mule et servant à élever les eaux de la nappe souterraine.
Seul le vacarme du moteur remplace le grincement de la noria que faisait tourner l’ânesse.
Synonyms
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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