noun
\nun\
The verdict
“noun” is uncommon French (frequency #53,516 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,516
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - N de l’alphabet arabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noun · noun · French
noun · rank #53,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,516
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niez
Nearest frequency peer: niez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « noun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nerds
nerds
46,488 corpus weight
- Nguesso
Nguesso
46,487 corpus weight
- niez
niez
46,486 corpus weight
- noun
noun
46,485 corpus weight
- novlangue
novlangue
46,484 corpus weight
- nueva
nueva
46,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nun\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noun is uncommon French at frequency #53,516 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "N de l’alphabet arabe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for noun, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is noun, spelled N-O-U-N.
Definition
- 1N de l’alphabet arabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un signe de stigmatisation, le noun est ainsi devenu un symbole de solidarité.
La légende circulaire qui contenait le nom de lieu et la date écrite en toutes lettres suivant l’usage est tellement coupée qu’on n’aperçoit plus que l’extrémité inférieure des lettres à queue telles que le sin, le ié, le noun.
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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