nos
\no\
The verdict
“nos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #147) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #147
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel. Qui sont à nous. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nos · nos · French
nos · rank #147 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #147
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH sera
Nearest frequency peer: sera (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nos »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- premier
premier
99,856 corpus weight
- sera
sera
99,855 corpus weight
- nos
nos
99,854 corpus weight
- parce
parce
99,853 corpus weight
- personne
personne
99,852 corpus weight
- cela
cela
99,851 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nos » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | nos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \no\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nos »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nos is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced \no\. Frequency #147 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du pluriel. Qui sont à nous. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nos in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nos, spelled N-O-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel. Qui sont à nous. Plusieurs possesseurs et plusieurs objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès ce moment, je sus que, pour avoir le maximum de nos vainqueurs, il fallait être plus jugulaires qu’eux-mêmes ; leurs chefs adoraient le respect des gradés, et nous pouvions profiter de leur faiblesse ? − ainsi, je commençai à devenir un « sale collaborateur ».
This word in other languages
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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