noyade
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,213
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
noyade is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de noyer une personne. Il se dit surtout en ce sens, au pluriel, en parlant des exécutions ordonnées à Nantes en 1793 par le représentant Carrier. Pronounced \nwa.jad\. Often confused with noyé and noyau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noyade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nwa.jad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for noyade is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nwa.jad\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,213 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for noyade, with forms such as "nnoyade", "noayde", and "noyadde". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "noyé", "noyau", "noyée", 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 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 noyade, spelled N-O-Y-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de noyer une personne. Il se dit surtout en ce sens, au pluriel, en parlant des exécutions ordonnées à Nantes en 1793 par le représentant Carrier.
- 2Mort due à une privation d’oxygène prolongée provoquée par l’immersion du sujet.
- 3Accident grave, mortel ou non, consistant en une privation d’oxygène prolongée provoquée par l’immersion du sujet.
- 4Disparition d'un sujet dans le chaos ou la multitude qui l'entoure.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnoyade,noayde,noyadde,noyaed,noydae,noyyade,nyoade,onyade
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Misspelling Variants of "noyade"
Frequency rank: #20,213 in French
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