nounous
\nu.nu\
The verdict
“nounous” is uncommon French (frequency #58,120 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,120
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nounou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nounous · nounous · French
nounous · rank #58,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noterez
Nearest frequency peer: noterez (-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 « nounous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- norte
norte
41,884 corpus weight
- Northumberl…
Northumberland
41,883 corpus weight
- noterez
noterez
41,882 corpus weight
- nounous
nounous
41,881 corpus weight
- nuts
nuts
41,880 corpus weight
- négriers
négriers
41,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nounous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nounous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.nu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nounous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nounous is uncommon French at frequency #58,120 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.nu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nounou.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nounous in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nounous, spelled N-O-U-N-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nounou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nounous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son père engage des nounous qu’elle fait tout pour décourager.
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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