norme

/\nɔʁm\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,255

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

norme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractéristique ou comportement généralement attendu d’une personne ou d’une chose. Pronounced \nɔʁm\. It ranks #4,255 in French word frequency. Often confused with Note and noyé.

Key facts for norme
PropertyValue
Headwordnorme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔʁm\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,255
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for norme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,255 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for norme, with forms such as "nnorme", "nomre", and "norem". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Note", "noyé", "noue", 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 norme, spelled N-O-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractéristique ou comportement généralement attendu d’une personne ou d’une chose.
  2. 2
    Règle de droit, en particulier écrite (législation, réglementation).
  3. 3
    Document élaboré par un organisme de normalisation qui tend à une harmonisation à l'échelle au moins nationale dans un domaine particulier.
  4. 4
    Document élaboré par un organisme de normalisation qui tend à une harmonisation à l'échelle au moins nationale dans un domaine particulier.
  5. 5
    Valeur différentielle des éléments d’un ensemble
  6. 6
    Valeur différentielle des éléments d’un ensemble
  7. 7
    Valeur différentielle des éléments d’un ensemble
  8. 8
    Chacune des manières d’écrire une langue qui en possède plusieurs.
  9. 9
    Chacune des performances qu’un joueur ou une joueuse doit réaliser pour obtenir un titre de maître.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nnorme,nomre,norem,normme,norrme,nrome,onrme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for norme

Misspelling Variants of "norme"

nnorme6nomre5norem5normme6norrme6nrome5onrme5
Misspelling Variants of "norme"

Frequency rank: #4,255 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "norme"?
"norme" is spelled N-O-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔʁm\.
What does "norme" mean?
As a noun, "norme" means: Caractéristique ou comportement généralement attendu d’une personne ou d’une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "norme"?
"norme" is commonly confused with "Note", "noyé", "noue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "norme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "norme" is \nɔʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "norme" come from?
"norme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter N in our French index:

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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.