nulle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,529
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
nulle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est nulle. Pronounced \nyl\. It ranks #2,529 in French word frequency. Often confused with nuls and nuque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nulle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nyl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nulle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,529 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celle qui est nulle.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nulle, with forms such as "nlule", "nnulle", and "nule". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "nuls", "nuque", "nurse", 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 nulle, spelled N-U-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est nulle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nlule,nnulle,nule,nulel,unlle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nulle
Misspelling Variants of "nulle"
Frequency rank: #2,529 in French
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