nommévsnoneWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: nommé is a adjective, none is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“nommé” is an adjective and “none” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,746
“nommé” frequency rank
#36,067
“none” frequency rank
37813
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nommé none
Definition Sélectionné. Quatrième partie du jour, qui commençait à la fin de la neuvième heure, ou, selon notre manière de compter, vers trois heures de l’après-midi.

Where the eye mixes nommé and none

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

5 ch
nommé
4 ch
none

Why the eye confuses nommé with none

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: nommé is \nɔ.me\ while none is \nɔn\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nommé is recorded at frequency rank #1,746, classified as anadj, pronounced \nɔ.me\. none is at rank #36,067, tagged as anoun, pronounced \nɔn\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 37813, this pair ranks #259,767 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of nommé vs none

Shared letters: no. Private to "nommé": . Private to "none": e.

"nommé" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "none" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nonennoe · noen · onne

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "nommé" and "none" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nommé" is an adjective and "none" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "nommé" or "none" show up more?
"nommé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,746 in our French list, against #36,067 for "none". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "nommé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "none" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #259,767 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nommé" and "none" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "none vs noués". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #259,767 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list