nouvelle
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#192
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
nouvelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre littéraire basé sur un récit de fiction habituellement court, en prose, centré sur un seul événement, laissant peu de répit au lecteur et dont la chute est souvent surprenante. Pronounced \nu.vɛl\. It ranks #192 in French word frequency. Often confused with nouvelles and nouvel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nouvelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nouvelle is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nu.vɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #192 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nouvelle, with forms such as "nnouvelle", "nouevlle", and "nouvele". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nouvelles", "nouvel", "Noëlle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nouvelle, spelled N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genre littéraire basé sur un récit de fiction habituellement court, en prose, centré sur un seul événement, laissant peu de répit au lecteur et dont la chute est souvent surprenante.
- 2Fait nouveau dont on est informé ; annonce d’une chose arrivée récemment.
- 3Information donnée par un média (journal, radio, télévision, etc.)
- 4Renseignement sur l’état d’une personne ou d’une chose dont on n’était pas informé depuis quelque temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnouvelle,nouevlle,nouvele,nouvelel,nouvlele,nouvvelle,novuelle,nuovelle,onuvelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nouvelle
Misspelling Variants of "nouvelle"
Frequency rank: #192 in French
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