notre
\nɔtʁ\
The verdict
“notre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #114
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui nous appartient. Plusieurs possesseurs (dont l’un est le locuteur) et un seul objet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-notre · notre · French
notre · rank #114 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #114
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH donc
Nearest frequency peer: donc (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “notre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- avant
avant
99,890 corpus weight
- depuis
depuis
99,889 corpus weight
- donc
donc
99,888 corpus weight
- notre
notre
99,887 corpus weight
- sous
sous
99,886 corpus weight
- jamais
jamais
99,885 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “notre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | notre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \nɔtʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “notre” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around notre (IPA \nɔtʁ\), adeterminer. Corpus frequency is #114 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for notre, with forms such as "nnotre", "norte", and "notrre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "noyé", "noue", "nour", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is notre, spelled N-O-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui nous appartient. Plusieurs possesseurs (dont l’un est le locuteur) et un seul objet.
- 2Mon, ma. Note d’usage : Utilisé par le roi et encore par les évêques dans leurs mandements et par les juges, quand ils disent nous au lieu de moi.
- 3S’emploie d’une manière indéterminée pour rappeler une personne dont on a déjà parlé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how notre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous mangeons notre repas.
Notre patrie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnotre
- norte
- notrre
- nottre
- ntore
- ontre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of notre - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "notre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "notre". Here's where to go from here.
- "notre" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "noyé". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #114 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "N" letter cohort. N–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.