nox
\noks\
The verdict
“nox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,973) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,973
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nox · nox · French
nox · rank #36,973 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,973
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nihilisme
Nearest frequency peer: nihilisme (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nox »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nefs
nefs
63,031 corpus weight
- nicht
nicht
63,030 corpus weight
- nihilisme
nihilisme
63,029 corpus weight
- nox
nox
63,028 corpus weight
- Nyon
Nyon
63,027 corpus weight
- nécessitera…
nécessiterait
63,026 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nox » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | nox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \noks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nox »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nox is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \noks\. Frequency #36,973 among 1,563 “N” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for nox in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nox, spelled N-O-X.
Definition
- 1Nuit.
- 2Repos de la nuit, sommeil, songe, rêve.
- 3Nuit éternelle, mort, ombres des morts ; les enfers.
- 4Ombrage, obscurité, ténèbres.
- 5Aveuglement, confusion, trouble, orage, tempête, perturbation.
- 6Cécité, perte de la vue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mediā nocte - primā nocte.
doleo me in hanc rei publicae noctem incidisse
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).