nouilles
\nuj\
The verdict
“nouilles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,496
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouilles · nouilles · French
nouilles · rank #17,496 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,496
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nomenclature
Nearest frequency peer: nomenclature (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nouilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nautique
nautique
82,509 corpus weight
- nomenclature
nomenclature
82,506 corpus weight
- nouilles
nouilles
82,505 corpus weight
- néfaste
néfaste
82,504 corpus weight
- oppositions
oppositions
82,503 corpus weight
- oratoire
oratoire
82,502 corpus weight
What this shows « nouilles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | nouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nuj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nouilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nouilles (IPA \nuj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,496 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de nouille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nouilles, with forms such as "nnouilles", "noiulles", and "nouilels". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nulles", "nouvelles", "nouille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 nouilles, spelled N-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nouilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut des plats à ravir la pensée !… des nouilles d’une délicatesse inédite, une féra de Genève à la vraie sauce genevoise, et une crème pour plum-pudding à étonner le fameux docteur qui l’a, dit-on, inventée à Londres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnouilles
- noiulles
- nouilels
- nouiles
- nouilless
- nouillse
- nouliles
- nuoilles
- onuilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nouilles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).