nostrevsnotéeConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#49,251
“nostre” frequency rank
#25,060
“notée” frequency rank
74311
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nostre notée
Definition Variante de notre. Féminin singulier de noté.

Letter map: nostre vs notée

Shared letters muted; letters that set nostre and notée apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
nostre
5 ch
notée

Role in the sentence - nostre and notée

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: nostre is adeterminer and notéeanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74311, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nostre is recorded at frequency rank #49,251, classified as adet. 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 74311, this pair ranks #37,548 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of nostre vs notée

Shared letters: enot. Private to "nostre": rs. Private to "notée": é.

"nostre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV  ·  "notée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nostrennostre · nosrte · nosstre · noster · nostrre · nosttre · notsre · nsotre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "nostre" and "notée" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "nostre" is a determiner and "notée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "nostre" or "notée" show up more?
"notée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,060 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

You've compared "nostre" and "notée". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "nostre" 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 #37,548 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nostre" and "notée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nostra 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 #37,548 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