notoire

/\nɔ.twaʁ\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,809

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

notoire is anFrenchadj. It means: Connu du public, manifeste. Pronounced \nɔ.twaʁ\. Often confused with notre and notoires.

Key facts for notoire
PropertyValue
Headwordnotoire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\nɔ.twaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,809
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for notoire is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,809 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Connu du public, manifeste.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for notoire, with forms such as "nnotoire", "nootire", and "notiore". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "notre", "notoires", "noire", 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 notoire, spelled N-O-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Connu du public, manifeste.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nnotoire,nootire,notiore,notoier,notoirre,notorie,nottoire,ntooire,ontoire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for notoire

Misspelling Variants of "notoire"

nnotoire8nootire7notiore7notoier7notoirre8notorie7nottoire8ntooire7
Misspelling Variants of "notoire"

Frequency rank: #18,809 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "notoire"?
"notoire" is spelled N-O-T-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ.twaʁ\.
What does "notoire" mean?
As an adj, "notoire" means: Connu du public, manifeste.
What words are commonly confused with "notoire"?
"notoire" is commonly confused with "notre", "notoires", "noire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "notoire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "notoire" is \nɔ.twaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "notoire" come from?
"notoire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.