nuit de noces

/\nɥi də nɔs\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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nuit de noces is aFrenchnoun. It means: Première nuit qui suit le mariage, où les jeunes mariés sont ensemble, dans le lit conjugal. Pronounced \nɥi də nɔs\.

Key facts for nuit de noces
PropertyValue
Headwordnuit de noces
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɥi də nɔs\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nuit de noces is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nuit de noces is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɥi də nɔs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Première nuit qui suit le mariage, où les jeunes mariés sont ensemble, dans le lit conjugal.".

No misspelling variants are generated for nuit de noces in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 nuit de noces, spelled N-U-I-T- -D-E- -N-O-C-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première nuit qui suit le mariage, où les jeunes mariés sont ensemble, dans le lit conjugal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nuit de noces"?
"nuit de noces" is spelled N-U-I-T- -D-E- -N-O-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \nɥi də nɔs\.
What does "nuit de noces" mean?
As a noun, "nuit de noces" means: Première nuit qui suit le mariage, où les jeunes mariés sont ensemble, dans le lit conjugal.
How do you pronounce "nuit de noces"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nuit de noces" is \nɥi də nɔs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nuit de noces" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.