Nuss
\nʊs\
The verdict
“Nuss” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akène nucule c'est à dire un fruit à coque du type noix, noisette, amande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuss · Nuss · French
Nuss · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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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Rare enough to double-check
Nuss is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nʊs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Nuss in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Nuss, spelled N-U-S-S.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nuss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nüsse sind kleine Wunder: Sie können uns vor Krankheiten schützen, halten uns fit und selbst ihr Fett ist gesund.
Drei Kugeln bitte: Banane, Nuss und Stracciatella!
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.