normales

/\nɔʁ.mal\/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,883

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

normales is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin pluriel de normal. Pronounced \nɔʁ.mal\. It ranks #9,883 in French word frequency. Often confused with normes and normands.

Key facts for normales
PropertyValue
Headwordnormales
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\nɔʁ.mal\
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,883
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for normales is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔʁ.mal\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,883 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin pluriel de normal.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for normales, with forms such as "nnormales", "nomrales", and "noramles". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "normes", "normands", "normandes", 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 normales, spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de normal.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nnormales,nomrales,noramles,normaels,normaless,normalles,normalse,normlaes,normmales,norrmales,nromales,onrmales

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for normales

Misspelling Variants of "normales"

nnormales9nomrales8noramles8normaels8normaless9normalles9normalse8normlaes8
Misspelling Variants of "normales"

Frequency rank: #9,883 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "normales"?
"normales" is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔʁ.mal\.
What does "normales" mean?
As an adj, "normales" means: Féminin pluriel de normal.
What words are commonly confused with "normales"?
"normales" is commonly confused with "normes", "normands", "normandes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "normales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "normales" is \nɔʁ.mal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "normales" come from?
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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.