Nouvion

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The verdict

“Nouvion” is uncommon French (frequency #70,887 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,887
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nouvion · Nouvion · French

Nouvion · rank #70,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,887
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nourricier

Nearest frequency peer: nourricier (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Nouvion »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nouvion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Nouvion
PropertyValue
HeadwordNouvion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,887
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Nouvion » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Nouviontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « nourricier » (#70,886), « Nyssen » (#70,889), « nitroglycérine » (#70,884). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « Nouvion » est au #70,887. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Nouvion is uncommon French at frequency #70,887 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nouvion, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Nouvion, spelled N-O-U-V-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
  2. 2
    Dénomination locale de la commune de Nouvion-sur-Meuse, dans le département des Ardennes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Nouvion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sous ce grand ciel songeur ou tourmenté, au bas des talus et sur les hauteurs s'égrène le double chapelet des villages : le Theux, Romery, Lumes, Nouvion, Flize, au bord de la Meuse qui dessine la moitié d'une circonférence ; […]

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nouvion"?
"Nouvion" is spelled N-O-U-V-I-O-N.
What does "Nouvion" mean?
As a proper noun, "Nouvion" means: Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
What language does "Nouvion" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nouvion", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Nemanja#70,880opérons#70,901mulâtre#70,866modelée#70,853

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list