Which to use
“none” is a noun and “notée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #36,067
- “none” frequency rank
- #25,060
- “notée” frequency rank
- 61127
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | none | notée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 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. | Féminin singulier de noté. |
Where the eye mixes none and notée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. none runs 4 letters (CVCV) against notée's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between none and notée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: none is \nɔn\ while notée is \nɔ.te\. 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 (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61127, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
none is recorded at frequency rank #36,067, classified as anoun, pronounced \nɔn\. notée is at rank #25,060, tagged as anadj, pronounced \nɔ.te\.
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 61127, this pair ranks #93,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of none vs notée
Shared letters: eno. Private to "none": -. Private to "notée": té.
"none" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "notée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- none ← nnoe · noen · onne
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "none" for "notée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "none" vs "notée" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "none" and "notée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "none" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "notée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #93,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "none" and "notée" 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 #93,924 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.