novus
The verdict
“novus” is uncommon French (frequency #86,968 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,968
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouveau, récent, récemment enrôlé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-novus · novus · French
novus · rank #86,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,968
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nourrissante
Nearest frequency peer: nourrissante (-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 « novus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- niqués
niqués
13,038 corpus weight
- nourrissante
nourrissante
13,034 corpus weight
- novus
novus
13,033 corpus weight
- nécessitera…
nécessiteraient
13,032 corpus weight
- obstructive
obstructive
13,030 corpus weight
- obsédées
obsédées
13,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « novus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | novus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « novus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
novus is uncommon French at frequency #86,968 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for novus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is novus, spelled N-O-V-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nouveau, récent, récemment enrôlé.
- 2Innové, refait à neuf, renouvelé.
- 3Neuf : inouï, jamais vu, inconnu, inusité, extraordinaire, étrange.
- 4Inconnu, de naissance obscure.
- 5Novice, inexpérimenté, qui n'a pas ou n’est pas éprouvé, dont on n'a pas l'habitude.
- 6Imprévu, inattendu.
- 7Nouveau dans son genre : inouï, grand, admirable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how novus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
novissimum ab Sabinis bellum ortum (est)
res novae : nouveautés politiques, révolution. ^([3])
Synonyms
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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