nostalgique
\nɔs.tal.ʒik\
The verdict
“nostalgique” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,955
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la nostalgie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nostalgique · nostalgique · French
nostalgique · rank #16,955 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,955
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH métamorphose
Nearest frequency peer: métamorphose (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nostalgique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- méchanceté
méchanceté
83,049 corpus weight
- méconnu
méconnu
83,048 corpus weight
- métamorphose
métamorphose
83,047 corpus weight
- nostalgique
nostalgique
83,046 corpus weight
- Noé
Noé
83,045 corpus weight
- obligent
obligent
83,044 corpus weight
What this shows « nostalgique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | nostalgique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔs.tal.ʒik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nostalgique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around nostalgique (IPA \nɔs.tal.ʒik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,955 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for nostalgique, with forms such as "nnostalgique", "nosatlgique", and "nosstalgique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nostalgiques", "nostalgie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nostalgique, spelled N-O-S-T-A-L-G-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la nostalgie.
- 2Envahi par un sentiment de nostalgie.
- 3Qui souffre, qui est atteint de nostalgie.
- 4Qui regrette le passé, passéiste.
- 5Mélancolique, triste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nostalgique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
État nostalgique : État dépressif causé par l’éloignement du pays natal.
La musique nostalgique des Cosaques aidant à son illusion, il abolissait le restaurant de nuit, les murs historiés d’armes circassiennes et les danseuses en jupe rouge, accroupies pour danser une Kazatchok.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnostalgique
- nosatlgique
- nosstalgique
- nostaglique
- nostalggique
- nostalgiqeu
- nostalgiqque
- nostalgiuqe
- nostalgqiue
- nostaligque
- nostallgique
- nostlagique
- nosttalgique
- notsalgique
- nsotalgique
- onstalgique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nostalgique - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).