nova
\nɔ.va\
The verdict
“nova” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,018
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoile qui devient extrêmement brillante pendant quelques jours par une explosion thermonucléaire sur la surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nova · nova · French
nova · rank #13,018 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,018
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nocturnes
Nearest frequency peer: nocturnes (-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 « nova »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nanas
nanas
86,986 corpus weight
- naïve
naïve
86,985 corpus weight
- nocturnes
nocturnes
86,984 corpus weight
- nova
nova
86,983 corpus weight
- NSA
NSA
86,982 corpus weight
- nécessitent
nécessitent
86,981 corpus weight
What this shows « nova » 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 | nova |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.va\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nova »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around nova (IPA \nɔ.va\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,018 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for nova, with forms such as "nnova", "noav", and "novva". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "now", "NSA", "NPA", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 nova, spelled N-O-V-A.
Definition
- 1Étoile qui devient extrêmement brillante pendant quelques jours par une explosion thermonucléaire sur la surface.
- 2Supernova.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nova appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour être observable, l’enveloppe d’une nova doit avoir une dimension assez grande: il faut attendre généralement une dizaine d’années pour qu’il en soit ainsi. De plus, à ce moment-là, sa brillance de surface doit être suffisante pour rendre sa détection possible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnova
- noav
- novva
- nvoa
- onva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nova - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).