nun
\nun\
The verdict
“nun” is uncommon French (frequency #69,278 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,278
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe de noun (נ, forme finale ן), quatorzième lettre des alphabets hébreu et phénicien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nun · nun · French
nun · rank #69,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,278
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Obiang
Nearest frequency peer: Obiang (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- notif
notif
30,726 corpus weight
- NSC
NSC
30,725 corpus weight
- nun
nun
30,723 corpus weight
- Obiang
Obiang
30,722 corpus weight
- oblong
oblong
30,721 corpus weight
- onusienne
onusienne
30,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nun\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nun is uncommon French at frequency #69,278 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nun\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre orthographe de noun (נ, forme finale ן), quatorzième lettre des alphabets hébreu et phénicien.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nun in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nun, spelled N-U-N.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe de noun (נ, forme finale ן), quatorzième lettre des alphabets hébreu et phénicien.
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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