nourrissent
\nu.ʁis\
The verdict
“nourrissent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,102. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,102
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de nourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourrissent · nourrissent · French
nourrissent · rank #14,102 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,102
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nordiques
Nearest frequency peer: nordiques (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nourrissent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- network
network
85,902 corpus weight
- neutres
neutres
85,901 corpus weight
- nordiques
nordiques
85,900 corpus weight
- nourrissent
nourrissent
85,899 corpus weight
- odieux
odieux
85,898 corpus weight
- Ohio
Ohio
85,897 corpus weight
What this shows « nourrissent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | nourrissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nu.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nourrissent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around nourrissent (IPA \nu.ʁis\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,102 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nourrissent, with forms such as "nnourrissent", "norurissent", and "nourirssent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nourrisson", "nourrissons", "nourrissant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 nourrissent, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de nourrir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de nourrir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de nourrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nourrissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paysages finistériens me nourrissent, les grands espaces de mer et de forêt m’attirent.
Si ces espèces benthiques (oursins, ophiures, petits crabes et crustacés…) avaient été fortement modifiées, nous aurions assisté à un changement des espèces de poissons débarquées, puisque la plupart s’en nourrissent, commente Joël Veigneau, chercheur à l’Ifremer et coauteur d’une étude initiée par les acteurs de la pêche de Normandie et des Hauts-de-France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnourrissent
- norurissent
- nourirssent
- nourissent
- nourrisent
- nourrisesnt
- nourrissennt
- nourrissentt
- nourrissetn
- nourrissnet
- nourrsisent
- nuorrissent
- onurrissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nourrissent - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).