normal

/\nɔʁ.mal\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,069

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

normal is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est conforme à la règle, à l’ordre. Pronounced \nɔʁ.mal\. It ranks #1,069 in French word frequency. Often confused with norme and normes.

Key facts for normal
PropertyValue
Headwordnormal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\nɔʁ.mal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,069
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of normal in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for normal is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for normal, with forms such as "nnormal", "nomral", and "noraml". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is normal, spelled N-O-R-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est conforme à la règle, à l’ordre.
  2. 2
    Ordinaire, régulier.
  3. 3
    Qualifie l'état d’un être organisé ou d’un organe qui n’a éprouvé aucune altération.
  4. 4
    Qui se déroule de la manière attendue, qui est dans un état habituel.
  5. 5
    Qui sert de règle, de modèle.
  6. 6
    Qualifiait les écoles destinées à former des maîtres pour l’enseignement public.
  7. 7
    Perpendiculaire. 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.
  8. 8
    Qualifie le mode de convergence possible pour les séries de fonctions. — → voir convergence normale.
  9. 9
    Qualifie la forme de l’écriture d’une expression ou d’un objet mathématique sous une forme simplifiée et spécifiée.
  10. 10
    Se dit d’un sous-groupe invariant sous l’action par conjugaison ; dans ce sens, synonyme de distingué.
  11. 11
    Qualifie un opérateur linéaire u d’un espace de Hilbert commutant avec son adjoint.
  12. 12
    Qualifie 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.
  13. 13
    Qualifie un ordre d’une fonction arithmétique lorsque l’approximation qu’il fournit est bonne sur presque tous les entiers naturels.
  14. 14
    Qualifie 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for normal

Misspelling Variants of "normal"

nnormal7nomral6noraml6normall7normla6normmal7norrmal7nromal6
Misspelling Variants of "normal"

Frequency rank: #1,069 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "normal"?
"normal" is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔʁ.mal\.
What does "normal" mean?
As an adj, "normal" means: Qui est conforme à la règle, à l’ordre.
What words are commonly confused with "normal"?
"normal" is commonly confused with "norme", "normes", "Norman". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "normal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "normal" is \nɔʁ.mal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "normal" come from?
"normal" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.