oui
[wi]
The verdict
“oui” is uncommon German (frequency #69,565 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,565
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ja, doch
Corpus desk
Index DE-oui · oui · German
oui · rank #69,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,565
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Ostufer
Nearest frequency peer: Ostufer (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „oui“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- orthodoxer
orthodoxer
30,440 corpus weight
- OSO
OSO
30,439 corpus weight
- Ostblocks
Ostblocks
30,438 corpus weight
- Ostufer
Ostufer
30,437 corpus weight
- oui
oui
30,436 corpus weight
- Oxid
Oxid
30,434 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „oui“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oui |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [wi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „oui“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
oui is uncommon German at frequency #69,565 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [wi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ja, doch".
oui doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is oui, spelled O-U-I.
Definition
- 1ja, doch
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avez-vous fait cela ? — Oui.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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