nouvelles
\nu.vɛl\
The verdict
“nouvelles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #435
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renseignement sur l’état d’une personne ou d’une chose dont on n’était pas informé depuis quelque temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouvelles · nouvelles · French
nouvelles · rank #435 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #435
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH ministre
Nearest frequency peer: ministre (-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 « nouvelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agit
agit
99,569 corpus weight
- enfant
enfant
99,568 corpus weight
- ministre
ministre
99,567 corpus weight
- nouvelles
nouvelles
99,566 corpus weight
- parfois
parfois
99,565 corpus weight
- quelle
quelle
99,564 corpus weight
What this shows « nouvelles » 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 | nouvelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nouvelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around nouvelles (IPA \nu.vɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #435 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Renseignement sur l’état d’une personne ou d’une chose dont on n’était pas informé depuis quelque temps.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nouvelles, with forms such as "nnouvelles", "nouevlles", and "nouvelels". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nouvelle", "nouilles", "nivelles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nouvelles, spelled N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Renseignement sur l’état d’une personne ou d’une chose dont on n’était pas informé depuis quelque temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nouvelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans nouvelles de la marquise de Mazatlan qui, depuis un mois, ne lui écrivait plus, Hervé se demandait si elle avait eu l'idée de lui faire une surprise, en débarquant à l’improviste sur cette côte où il l’avait déjà rencontrée.
Quand on veut absolument des nouvelles de quelqu’un, faut aller les demander à ceux qui savent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnouvelles
- nouevlles
- nouvelels
- nouveles
- nouvelless
- nouvellse
- nouvleles
- nouvvelles
- novuelles
- nuovelles
- onuvelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nouvelles - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).