nougatine
\nu.ɡa.tin\
The verdict
“nougatine” is uncommon French (frequency #97,215 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,215
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confiserie faite de sucre caramélisé et de menus morceaux d’amandes ou de noix, souvent utilisée en pâtisserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nougatine · nougatine · French
nougatine · rank #97,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,215
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noobs
Nearest frequency peer: noobs (-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 « nougatine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nitrile
nitrile
2,793 corpus weight
- noli
noli
2,789 corpus weight
- noobs
noobs
2,788 corpus weight
- nougatine
nougatine
2,786 corpus weight
- numismatiqu…
numismatiques
2,781 corpus weight
- nécrophile
nécrophile
2,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nougatine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nougatine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ɡa.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nougatine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nougatine is uncommon French at frequency #97,215 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.ɡa.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Confiserie faite de sucre caramélisé et de menus morceaux d’amandes ou de noix, souvent utilisée en pâtisserie.".
nougatine has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nougatine, spelled N-O-U-G-A-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Confiserie faite de sucre caramélisé et de menus morceaux d’amandes ou de noix, souvent utilisée en pâtisserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nougatine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nougatine est une spécialité pâtissière inventée à Nevers vers 1850.
On regardait ensemble la devanture du libraire de la place des Belges, parfois elle proposait « veux-tu que je t’en achète un ? ». Pareil qu’à la pâtisserie, devant les meringues et les nougatines, le même appétit, le même impression aussi que c’était pas très raisonnable. « Dis, ça te ferait plaisir ? » C’est le libraire forcément qui conseillait, choisi…
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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