nourricière
\nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“nourricière” is uncommon French (frequency #57,464 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,464
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui nourrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourriciere · nourricière · French
nourricière · rank #57,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,464
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nonchalant
Nearest frequency peer: nonchalant (-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 « nourricière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nolife
nolife
42,539 corpus weight
- nonchalant
nonchalant
42,538 corpus weight
- nourricière
nourricière
42,537 corpus weight
- nourrissaie…
nourrissaient
42,536 corpus weight
- noyades
noyades
42,535 corpus weight
- nuise
nuise
42,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nourricière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nourricière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nourricière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nourricière is uncommon French at frequency #57,464 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.ʁi.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nourricière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nourricière, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-C-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui nourrit.
- 2Abeille chargée de la récolte et du transport de la nourriture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nourricière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rô, qui faisait de la chair des pauvres gens qu’elle surprenait chaque jour, de coutumières ripailles, n’était pas seulement une redoutable ennemie, mais, douée par surcroît d’une subtile intelligence et d’une perversion inexplicable, elle savait tendre aux riverains de la côte, pièges et trébuchets, afin qu’y tombassent les imprudents égarés loin du bour…
Mais si les nourricières se décident à operculer les cellules, c’est que l’essaim primaire est parti ou qu’il doit nécessairement partir sous peu.
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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