nouvel
\nu.vɛl\
The verdict
“nouvel” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,270
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin singulier de nouveau employée devant une voyelle ou un h muet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouvel · nouvel · French
nouvel · rank #1,270 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,270
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH malade
Nearest frequency peer: malade (-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 « nouvel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lignes
lignes
98,733 corpus weight
- malade
malade
98,732 corpus weight
- nouvel
nouvel
98,731 corpus weight
- pareil
pareil
98,730 corpus weight
- parlé
parlé
98,729 corpus weight
- privé
privé
98,728 corpus weight
What this shows « nouvel » 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 | nouvel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nu.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nouvel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around nouvel (IPA \nu.vɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,270 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin singulier de nouveau employée devant une voyelle ou un h muet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for nouvel, with forms such as "nnouvel", "nouevl", and "nouvell". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "novel", "nouvelle", "nouvelles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nouvel, spelled N-O-U-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1Masculin singulier de nouveau employée devant une voyelle ou un h muet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nouvel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les blagues, brocards, plaisanteries ont pour fonction de désacraliser le pouvoir, de décharismatiser le guide indigne et de dénoncer le nouvel ordre répressif qui s’est instauré ; mais ils ne contribuent en rien à promouvoir une nouvelle figure charismatique, ils ne se donnent pas pour tâche de faire entrevoir la société idéale par rapport à celle qu’ils…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnouvel
- nouevl
- nouvell
- nouvle
- nouvvel
- novuel
- nuovel
- onuvel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nouvel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).