Nuss
Letters
4 characters
Language
French
word origin
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Nuss is aFrenchnoun. It means: Akène nucule c'est à dire un fruit à coque du type noix, noisette, amande. Pronounced \nʊs\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nuss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nʊs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for Nuss is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nʊs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Nuss in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Nuss, spelled N-U-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Akène nucule c'est à dire un fruit à coque du type noix, noisette, amande.
- 2Noisette par abréviation du mot Haselnuss.
- 3Noix par abréviation du mot Walnuss.
- 4Noix dans le sens du morceau de viande de la cuisse des bovins et porcins.
- 5Embout de clé à douille.
- 6Personne stupide.
- 7Tête, figure, tronche, gueule.
- 8Organe sexuel d'une lapine ou d'une femelle d'une espèce prédatrice.
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