nursing
\nœʁ.siŋ\
The verdict
“nursing” is uncommon French (frequency #78,689 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,689
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des soins infirmiers, d’hygiène et de confort apportés aux personnes dépendantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nursing · nursing · French
nursing · rank #78,689 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,689
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH néolibérales
Nearest frequency peer: néolibérales (+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 « nursing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nodule
nodule
21,318 corpus weight
- noiret
noiret
21,316 corpus weight
- nursing
nursing
21,312 corpus weight
- néolibérales
néolibérales
21,311 corpus weight
- objectivati…
objectivation
21,310 corpus weight
- obole
obole
21,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nursing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nursing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nœʁ.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nursing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nursing is uncommon French at frequency #78,689 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nœʁ.siŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nursing, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nursing, spelled N-U-R-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des soins infirmiers, d’hygiène et de confort apportés aux personnes dépendantes.
- 2Acte de soin particulier effectué dans ce cadre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nursing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier matin, dès neuf heures, le Musée social s’emplit d'un public étrange : des femmes en voile blanc, des femmes en collerettes, des femmes en manchettes s’interpellaient dans un langage divers et heurté, se pressaient avec un enthousiasme apostolique. … L’évolution moderne du nursing en France, l’enseignement pratique des gardes-malades ont successiveme…
Le but spécifique du nursing est d’assurer une présence qui coordonne et assume la continuité des soins; il se réalise en partageant les objectifs de l’équipe soignante, c’est-à-dire en proumouvant un état de santé optimal, en prodiguant les soins requis, en enseignant l’hygiène sanitaire.
Synonyms
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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