Norvège
\nɔʁ.vɛʒ\
The verdict
“Norvège” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,117 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #6,117
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays d’Europe du Nord situé dans l’Ouest de la Scandinavie, bordé au sud-ouest par la mer du Nord, au nord-ouest par la mer de Norvège, au nord-est par la mer de Barents, la Russie et la Finlande, ...
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 | Norvège |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nɔʁ.vɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Norvège” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Norvège is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔʁ.vɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,117 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pays d’Europe du Nord situé dans l’Ouest de la Scandinavie, bordé au sud-ouest par la mer du Nord, au nord-ouest par la mer de Norvège, au nord-est par la mer de Barents, la Russie et la Finlande, ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Norvège, with forms such as "nnorvège", "norrvège", and "norvege". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "norvégien", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Norvège, spelled N-O-R-V-È-G-E.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Europe du Nord situé dans l’Ouest de la Scandinavie, bordé au sud-ouest par la mer du Nord, au nord-ouest par la mer de Norvège, au nord-est par la mer de Barents, la Russie et la Finlande, à l'est-sud-est par la Suède, et séparé au sud du Danemark par le Skagerrak, et dont la capitale est Oslo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnorvège,norrvège,norvege,norvgèe,norvvège,norvèeg,norvègge,norèvge,novrège,nrovège,onrvège
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Norvège - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Norvège”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-R-V-È-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɔʁ.vɛʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “norvégien” - see the side-by-side comparison. Norvège vs norvégien
- 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.