novation
\nɔ.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“novation” is uncommon French (frequency #70,067 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,067
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Changement par lequel un nouveau titre est substitué à un ancien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-novation · novation · French
novation · rank #70,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH notebook
Nearest frequency peer: notebook (-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 « novation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Normandy
Normandy
29,937 corpus weight
- northwest
northwest
29,936 corpus weight
- notebook
notebook
29,935 corpus weight
- novation
novation
29,934 corpus weight
- nursery
nursery
29,933 corpus weight
- népalaise
népalaise
29,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « novation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | novation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « novation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
novation is uncommon French at frequency #70,067 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
novation has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is novation, spelled N-O-V-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Changement par lequel un nouveau titre est substitué à un ancien.
- 2Invention révolutionnaire, radicale, disruptive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how novation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils ont stipulé dans la transaction qu’il n’y aurait point de novation au premier contrat.
Sans novation d’hypothèque.
This word in other languages
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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