noueux
French, adjective/nwø/
noueux is spelled N-O-U-E-U-X (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 84,649th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Noueux is a French adjective meaning “gnarled, knotty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a beaucoup de nœuds, en parlant du bois”.
What does noueux mean in English?
adjective
- 1
gnarled, knotty
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a beaucoup de nœuds, en parlant du bois. 2. Dont les articulations présentent des nodosités, en parlant d’une personne. 3. Qui produit des nodosités. 4. Se dit d’un meuble héraldique présentant à sa surface des nœuds de branches ou des écots.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of noueux
- noueuse feminine
- noueuses feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce noueux?
- /nwø/
- \nwø\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to noueux
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is noueux in French?
noueux appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).