NR
\ɛ.n‿ɛʁ\
The verdict
“NR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,692) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,692
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de nationalisme révolutionnaire, de national-révolutionnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nr · NR · French
NR · rank #24,692 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,692
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nourrissant
Nearest frequency peer: nourrissant (-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 « NR »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- niagara
niagara
75,312 corpus weight
- normalité
normalité
75,311 corpus weight
- nourrissant
nourrissant
75,310 corpus weight
- NR
NR
75,309 corpus weight
- occupez
occupez
75,308 corpus weight
- offs
offs
75,307 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « NR » 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 | NR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.n‿ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NR »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NR is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛ.n‿ɛʁ\. Frequency #24,692 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de nationalisme révolutionnaire, de national-révolutionnaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for NR in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 NR, spelled N-R.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de nationalisme révolutionnaire, de national-révolutionnaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nationalistes modernistes, les NR semblent fascinés par l’adversaire d’extrême gauche.
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.