nouba
\nu.ba\
The verdict
“nouba” is uncommon French (frequency #76,837 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,837
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musique arabo-andalouse, jouée sur un mode, à une heure et selon un ordre déterminés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouba · nouba · French
nouba · rank #76,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,837
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nuisant
Nearest frequency peer: nuisant (+2 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 « nouba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nohant
Nohant
23,169 corpus weight
- nomenclatur…
nomenclatures
23,168 corpus weight
- nouba
nouba
23,164 corpus weight
- nuisant
nuisant
23,162 corpus weight
- nuri
nuri
23,161 corpus weight
- négligente
négligente
23,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nouba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nouba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nouba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nouba is uncommon French at frequency #76,837 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nouba, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 nouba, spelled N-O-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1Musique arabo-andalouse, jouée sur un mode, à une heure et selon un ordre déterminés.
- 2Orchestre de tirailleurs nord-africains.
- 3Fête, java.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nouba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il existe différents styles de noubas, le gharnati, le m(a)alouf, etc.
Une noce ne va pas sans musique, l’Algérie sans la nouba, cette musique des tirailleurs algériens qui a enchanté les boulevards parisiens en -13.
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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