normal
\nɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“normal” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,069 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #1,069
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est conforme à la règle, à l’ordre.
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 | normal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “normal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for normal is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔʁ.mal\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,069 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for normal, with forms such as "nnormal", "nomral", and "noraml". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "norme", "normes", "Norman", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 normal, spelled N-O-R-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est conforme à la règle, à l’ordre.
- 2Ordinaire, régulier.
- 3Qualifie l'état d’un être organisé ou d’un organe qui n’a éprouvé aucune altération.
- 4Qui se déroule de la manière attendue, qui est dans un état habituel.
- 5Qui sert de règle, de modèle.
- 6Qualifiait les écoles destinées à former des maîtres pour l’enseignement public.
- 7Perpendiculaire. Plus généralement qualifie tout vecteur non nul orthogonal en un point au sous-espace tangent d’une courbe, d’une surface ou plus généralement d’une sous-variété.
- 8Qualifie le mode de convergence possible pour les séries de fonctions. — → voir convergence normale.
- 9Qualifie la forme de l’écriture d’une expression ou d’un objet mathématique sous une forme simplifiée et spécifiée.
- 10Se dit d’un sous-groupe invariant sous l’action par conjugaison ; dans ce sens, synonyme de distingué.
- 11Qualifie un opérateur linéaire u d’un espace de Hilbert commutant avec son adjoint.
- 12Qualifie toute loi de probabilité ayant pour densité l’exponentielle d’un polynôme du second degré. Qualifie également cette densité. Dans ce cas, synonyme de gaussienne.
- 13Qualifie un ordre d’une fonction arithmétique lorsque l’approximation qu’il fournit est bonne sur presque tous les entiers naturels.
- 14Qualifie un nombre réel dans le développement infini duquel, dans chaque base supérieure à un, les différents chiffres de cette base sont équirépartis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnormal,nomral,noraml,normall,normla,normmal,norrmal,nromal,onrmal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of normal - 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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Using “normal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-R-M-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɔʁ.mal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “norme” - see the side-by-side comparison. normal vs norme
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.