nourrices
\nu.ʁis\
The verdict
“nourrices” is uncommon French (frequency #64,651 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,651
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nourrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourrices · nourrices · French
nourrices · rank #64,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,651
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nordine
Nearest frequency peer: Nordine (-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 « nourrices »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- noies
noies
35,353 corpus weight
- Nordine
Nordine
35,351 corpus weight
- nourrices
nourrices
35,350 corpus weight
- nourrissez
nourrissez
35,349 corpus weight
- négligents
négligents
35,348 corpus weight
- Nérac
Nérac
35,347 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nourrices » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nourrices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nourrices » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nourrices is uncommon French at frequency #64,651 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nourrice.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nourrices, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nourrices, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nourrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nourrices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le grand-père prit le marmot, il le baisa, le trouva délicieux et ravissant ; il lui parla le parler des nourrices, prophétisa que ce poupard deviendrait plus grand que lui, glissa des flatteries à l’adresse de son fils Hulot, et rendit l’enfant à la grosse Normande chargée de le tenir.
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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