novella
\nɔ.vɛl.lɑ\
The verdict
“novella” is uncommon French (frequency #77,750 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,750
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roman habituellement court, où tous les événements sont reliés à un seul événement principal, laissant des périodes de repos au lecteur et dont la chute est normalement lente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-novella · novella · French
novella · rank #77,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nye
Nearest frequency peer: nye (+2 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 « novella »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nissa
Nissa
22,256 corpus weight
- nominalement
nominalement
22,254 corpus weight
- novella
novella
22,251 corpus weight
- nye
nye
22,249 corpus weight
- névrotique
névrotique
22,248 corpus weight
- Ockham
Ockham
22,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « novella » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | novella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.vɛl.lɑ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « novella » en français
Rare enough to double-check
novella is uncommon French at frequency #77,750 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.vɛl.lɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roman habituellement court, où tous les événements sont reliés à un seul événement principal, laissant des périodes de repos au lecteur et dont la chute est normalement lente.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for novella, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is novella, spelled N-O-V-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Roman habituellement court, où tous les événements sont reliés à un seul événement principal, laissant des périodes de repos au lecteur et dont la chute est normalement lente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how novella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le recueil fut prêt en 1941, toutes les nouvelles et les novellas ayant été traduites par d'éminents écrivains italiens tels que Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Alberto Moravia (1907-1989) et Eugenio Montale (1896-1981).
Composé de trois histoires (des novellas), le livre nous entraîne dans les méandres du droit canon, les magouilles de sacristies, les conspirations cardinales et les révolutions de palais.
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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