Nour-Soultan
\nuʁ sul.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“Nour-Soultan” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom (de 2019 à 2022) de la capitale du Kazakhstan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nour-Soultan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nuʁ sul.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nour-Soultan” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Nour-Soultan is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nuʁ sul.tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ancien nom (de 2019 à 2022) de la capitale du Kazakhstan.".
Nour-Soultan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Nour-Soultan, spelled N-O-U-R---S-O-U-L-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom (de 2019 à 2022) de la capitale du Kazakhstan.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “Nour-Soultan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-U-R---S-O-U-L-T-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nuʁ sul.tɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.