nouloir
\nu.lwaʁ\
The verdict
“nouloir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas vouloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouloir · nouloir · French
nouloir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nouloir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nu.lwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nouloir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nouloir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \nu.lwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ne pas vouloir.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nouloir in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 nouloir, spelled N-O-U-L-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ne pas vouloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nouloir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A-t-on la force de ſoulever un poids de cent livres, quand on ne peut le ſoulever qu’avec le ſecours d’un bras étranger ? Donc avant même de la vouloir, en vertu de cette prédétermination, on n’a ni la force ni la puiſſance de la nouloir. Dieu auroit-il une vraie puiſſance de nouloir, s’il avoir beſoin de ſecours pour vouloir ?
La « thèse commune » à la fin du XVe siècle est que la volonté est libre dans les contradictoires parce qu’elle est libre de vouloir (V) ou de ne pas vouloir (NV), et libre de nouloir (VN) ou de ne pas nouloir (NVN), mais, pas dans les contraires, parce qu’elle n’est pas libre de vouloir (V) un mal connu ou apparent, ou de nouloir (VN) un bien connu ou ap…
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.