nouvelleté
\nu.vɛl.te\
The verdict
“nouvelleté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise faite sur le possesseur d’un héritage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nouvellete · nouvelleté · French
nouvelleté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nouvelleté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nu.vɛl.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
nouvelleté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nu.vɛl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Entreprise faite sur le possesseur d’un héritage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nouvelleté, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nouvelleté, spelled N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Entreprise faite sur le possesseur d’un héritage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nouvelleté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je m’en vais former complainte pour ce trouble, et te faire appeler en cas de saisine et de nouvelleté.
Devant les laboureurs rassemblés, le greffier lut un écrit aux termes duquel le tribunal de monseigneur pouvait connaître leur complainte (les cas de nouvelleté où les clercs étaient défendeurs relevant des tribunaux ecclésiastiques).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.