nose
\nəʊz\
The verdict
“nose” is uncommon French (frequency #52,231 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,231
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nose · nose · French
nose · rank #52,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,231
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH notarié
Nearest frequency peer: notarié (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nobiliaire
nobiliaire
47,773 corpus weight
- nominative
nominative
47,772 corpus weight
- nose
nose
47,770 corpus weight
- notarié
notarié
47,769 corpus weight
- nuptial
nuptial
47,768 corpus weight
- nutritionne…
nutritionnels
47,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nəʊz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nose is uncommon French at frequency #52,231 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nəʊz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nose, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nose, spelled N-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nez.
- 2Museau, groin.
- 3Flair
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
Synonyms
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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