nourrisson
\nu.ʁi.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“nourrisson” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,798
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant (garçon ou fille) qu’une femme nourrit de son lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourrisson · nourrisson · French
nourrisson · rank #20,798 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,798
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noisette
Nearest frequency peer: noisette (-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 « nourrisson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nationalisa…
nationalisation
79,205 corpus weight
- noisette
noisette
79,204 corpus weight
- nourrisson
nourrisson
79,203 corpus weight
- nutella
nutella
79,202 corpus weight
- oculaire
oculaire
79,201 corpus weight
- opposait
opposait
79,200 corpus weight
What this shows « nourrisson » 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 | nourrisson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.ʁi.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nourrisson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around nourrisson (IPA \nu.ʁi.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,798 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nourrisson, with forms such as "nnourrisson", "norurisson", and "nourirsson". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nourrissons", "nourrissent", "nourrissant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 nourrisson, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Enfant (garçon ou fille) qu’une femme nourrit de son lait.
- 2Élève.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nourrisson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— la présure ou labferment surtout abondante dans l’estomac du nourrisson provoque la coagulation du lait.
Nous n’avons pas obtenu un seul cas de scorbut infantile avec cette marque spéciale de lait condensé et nous n’avons vu que rarement des nourrissons se rachitiser.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnourrisson
- norurisson
- nourirsson
- nourisson
- nourrison
- nourrisosn
- nourrissno
- nourrissonn
- nourrsison
- nuorrisson
- onurrisson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nourrisson - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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