nostravsnostreTell them apart

Quick tell: nostra is a adjective, nostre is a determiner, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“nostra” is an adjective and “nostre” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,069
“nostra” frequency rank
#49,251
“nostre” frequency rank
85320
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nostra nostre
Definition Féminin de nostro Variante de notre.

Letter map: nostra vs nostre

Shared letters muted; letters that set nostra and nostre apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch
nostra
6 ch
nostre

Part-of-speech tell for nostra / nostre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: nostra is anadjective and nostreadeterminer. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “nostra” becomes e in “nostre”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85320, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nostra is recorded at frequency rank #36,069, classified as anadj, pronounced \ˈnɔ.stra\. nostre is at rank #49,251, tagged as adet.

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 85320, this pair ranks #11,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of nostra vs nostre

Shared letters: norst. Private to "nostra": a. Private to "nostre": e.

"nostra" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV  ·  "nostre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nostrannostra · nosrta · nosstra · nostar · nostrra · nosttra · notsra · nsotra
  • nostrennostre · nosrte · nosstre · noster · nostrre · nosttre · notsre · nsotre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "nostra" and "nostre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nostra" is an adjective and "nostre" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "nostra" or "nostre"?
"nostra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,069 in our French list, against #49,251 for "nostre". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "nostra" vs "nostre" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "nostra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nostre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,537 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nostra" and "nostre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "naitre vs nostre". 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 #11,537 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