nourrice
\nu.ʁis\
The verdict
“nourrice” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #22,955 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #22,955
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme qui allaite l’enfant d’une autre.
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 | nourrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nourrice” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nourrice is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nu.ʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,955 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nourrice, with forms such as "nnourrice", "norurice", and "nourice". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nourrir", "nourris", "nourrie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 nourrice, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui allaite l’enfant d’une autre.
- 2Mère qui allaite son propre enfant.
- 3Personne ou chose qui entretient, alimente, et en particulier femme qui a pour métier de garder des enfants.
- 4Bidon à poignée utilisé pour la manutention et la distribution de liquides.
- 5Connecteur dans une tuyauterie où sont regroupés les robinets d’arrêt et de départ.
- 6Boitier comportant plusieurs prises de courant alimentées par un câble unique muni d’une fiche.
- 7Personne qui cache de la drogue chez elle en contrepartie d’une rémunération.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnourrice,norurice,nourice,nourirce,nourrcie,nourricce,nourriec,nuorrice,onurrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nourrice - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “nourrice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-U-R-R-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nu.ʁis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “nourrir” - see the side-by-side comparison. nourrice vs nourrir
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.