novembre

/\nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#586

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

novembre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Onzième mois de l’année du calendrier grégorien, constitué de 30 jours. Pronounced \nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\. It ranks #586 in French word frequency. Often confused with nombre and November.

Key facts for novembre
PropertyValue
Headwordnovembre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#586
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of novembre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for novembre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #586 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Onzième mois de l’année du calendrier grégorien, constitué de 30 jours.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for novembre, with forms such as "nnovembre", "noevmbre", and "novebmre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nombre", "November", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is novembre, spelled N-O-V-E-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Onzième mois de l’année du calendrier grégorien, constitué de 30 jours.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nnovembre,noevmbre,novebmre,novembbre,novembrre,novemmbre,novemrbe,novmebre,novvembre,nvoembre,onvembre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for novembre

Misspelling Variants of "novembre"

nnovembre9noevmbre8novebmre8novembbre9novembrre9novemmbre9novemrbe8novmebre8
Misspelling Variants of "novembre"

Frequency rank: #586 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "novembre"?
"novembre" is spelled N-O-V-E-M-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\.
What does "novembre" mean?
As a noun, "novembre" means: Onzième mois de l’année du calendrier grégorien, constitué de 30 jours.
What words are commonly confused with "novembre"?
"novembre" is commonly confused with "nombre", "November". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "novembre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "novembre" is \nɔ.vɑ̃bʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "novembre" come from?
"novembre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.