nounou
\nu.nu\
The verdict
“nounou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,008. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,008
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui garde un ou plusieurs enfants de façon professionnelle ou occasionnellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nounou · nounou · French
nounou · rank #18,008 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,008
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH navigateurs
Nearest frequency peer: navigateurs (-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 « nounou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- méfaits
méfaits
81,997 corpus weight
- native
native
81,995 corpus weight
- navigateurs
navigateurs
81,994 corpus weight
- nounou
nounou
81,993 corpus weight
- nullité
nullité
81,992 corpus weight
- number
number
81,991 corpus weight
What this shows « nounou » 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 | nounou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.nu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nounou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nounou (IPA \nu.nu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,008 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui garde un ou plusieurs enfants de façon professionnelle ou occasionnellement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nounou, with forms such as "nnounou", "nonuou", and "nounnou". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nounours", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 nounou, spelled N-O-U-N-O-U.
Definition
- 1Personne qui garde un ou plusieurs enfants de façon professionnelle ou occasionnellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nounou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] un grand jardin public au bas des Champs-Élysées, avec des nurses anglaises et des nounous alsaciennes, […]
Travailler pour payer la nounou, est-ce bien utile? Quand arrive un enfant, puis deux, puis trois... le calcul est parfois vite fait : entre les frais de garde, de cantine, de baby-sitter, sans compter la fatigue et le stress, on se demande parfois s’il est encore bien utile de s’entêter à travailler pour un gain somme toute plutôt modique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnounou
- nonuou
- nounnou
- nounuo
- nouonu
- nuonou
- onunou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nounou - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).