noz
\ˈnoːs\
The verdict
“noz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,450) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,450
- 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-noz · noz · French
noz · rank #38,450 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,450
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nourrissait
Nearest frequency peer: nourrissait (-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 « noz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nouille
nouille
61,553 corpus weight
- nourrissait
nourrissait
61,552 corpus weight
- noz
noz
61,551 corpus weight
- nuitées
nuitées
61,550 corpus weight
- négligés
négligés
61,549 corpus weight
- observa
observa
61,548 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « noz » 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 | noz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈnoːs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « noz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for noz is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈnoːs\. Frequency #38,450 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nuit.".
noz has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is noz, spelled N-O-Z.
Definition
- 1Nuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bagadou all, ha n’oant ket krenv a-walcʼh da cʼhounit douarou dre an armou, en em silas a goad da goad, a ouelecʼh da ouelecʼh, e-skeud an noziou diloar.
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).