nouveauté
\nu.vo.te\
The verdict
“nouveauté” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,322 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,322
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui n'existait pas auparavant ou qui était inconnu.
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 | nouveauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.vo.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nouveauté” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nouveauté is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nu.vo.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,322 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for nouveauté, with forms such as "nnouveauté", "nouevauté", and "nouvaeuté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nouveaux", "nouveautés", "nouveau", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nouveauté, spelled N-O-U-V-E-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui n'existait pas auparavant ou qui était inconnu.
- 2Caractère de ce qui est récent, de création récente, qui date de peu, qui existe depuis peu.
- 3Caractère de ce qui vient de remplacer ou succéder à quelque chose
- 4Caractéristique innovante, ce qu’il y a d’unique dans un nouveau produit ou un service ; différence avantageuse.
- 5Situation inédite et inattendue engendrant le sentiment de merveilleux.
- 6Caractère, qualité éphémère de ce qui est nouveau, récent, présenté pour la première fois ; récence.
- 7Phénomène inédit.
- 8Dernier produit présenté ou exposé par une entreprise.
- 9Livres qui viennent de paraître, pièces de théâtre qu’on vient de monter pour la première fois, films qui viennent de sortir.
- 10Doctrine nouvelle, en contradiction avec les idées, le régime, la tradition établis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnouveauté,nouevauté,nouvaeuté,nouveatué,nouveaute,nouveautté,nouveauét,nouveuaté,nouvveauté,novueauté,nuoveauté,onuveauté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nouveauté - 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 “nouveauté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-O-U-V-E-A-U-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nu.vo.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “nouveaux” - see the side-by-side comparison. nouveauté vs nouveaux
- 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.