prix Nobel
\pʁi no.bɛl\
The verdict
“prix Nobel” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Récompense de portée internationale fondée en 1901 décernée chaque année à des personnes ayant apporté le plus grand bénéfice à l’humanité, par leurs inventions, découvertes et améliorations dans d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prix Nobel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi no.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prix Nobel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prix Nobel is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi no.bɛl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for prix Nobel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 prix Nobel, spelled P-R-I-X- -N-O-B-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Récompense de portée internationale fondée en 1901 décernée chaque année à des personnes ayant apporté le plus grand bénéfice à l’humanité, par leurs inventions, découvertes et améliorations dans différents domaines de la connaissance, par l’œuvre littéraire la plus impressionnante, ou par leur travail en faveur de la paix, par exemple.
- 2Personne ayant reçu cette distinction.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-X- -N-O-B-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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