Nuss
\nʊs\
The verdict
“Nuss” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Akène nucule c'est à dire un fruit à coque du type noix, noisette, amande.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nuss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nʊs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nuss” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Nuss is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 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.
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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.
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Using “Nuss”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-U-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nʊs\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.