pôle Nord
\pol nɔʁ\
The verdict
“pôle Nord” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des deux intersections de l’axe de rotation d’un astre et de sa surface, dans l’hémisphère Nord. Vu au-dessus du pôle Nord, l’astre tourne dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pole-nord · pôle Nord · French
pôle Nord · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pôle Nord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pol nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pôle Nord » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pôle Nord is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pol nɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pôle Nord, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pôle Nord, spelled P-Ô-L-E- -N-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Une des deux intersections de l’axe de rotation d’un astre et de sa surface, dans l’hémisphère Nord. Vu au-dessus du pôle Nord, l’astre tourne dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d’une montre.
- 2Pôle Nord de la Terre, appelé aussi pôle Nord géographique.
- 3Pôle Nord magnétique, situé près du pôle Nord géographique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pôle Nord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mai 1925, Amundsen était parti en avion à la conquête du Pôle Nord, et la plus grande inquiétude régnait sur son sort.
Selon les Américains, la résidence du père Noël est sise au pôle Nord.
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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.