nurse
\nœʁs\
The verdict
“nurse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,600
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’occupe de jeunes enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nurse · nurse · French
nurse · rank #44,600 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neue
Nearest frequency peer: neue (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nurse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- naviguent
naviguent
55,404 corpus weight
- nen
nen
55,403 corpus weight
- neue
neue
55,402 corpus weight
- nurse
nurse
55,401 corpus weight
- nébuleuses
nébuleuses
55,400 corpus weight
- négrière
négrière
55,399 corpus weight
What this shows « nurse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | nurse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nœʁs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nurse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nurse (IPA \nœʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,600 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui s’occupe de jeunes enfants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nurse, with forms such as "nnurse", "nruse", and "nures". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "nus", "nue", "nuls", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nurse, spelled N-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’occupe de jeunes enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nurse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je l’ai revue au Bois, en uniforme bleu marine de nurse, poussant un landau d’enfant…
Solange, elle, avait appris par un télégramme que Paul serait accompagné non par sa « chère maman », mais par une nurse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnurse
- nruse
- nures
- nurrse
- nursse
- nusre
- unrse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nurse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nurse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).