ocher
/ˈoʊkɚ/
"ocher" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ocher” is uncommon English (frequency #90,790 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,790
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of ochre.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ocher · ocher · English
ocher · rank #90,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,790
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH obstinately
Nearest frequency peer: obstinately (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “ocher”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nyanza
nyanza
9,216 corpus weight
- oblongata
oblongata
9,213 corpus weight
- obstinately
obstinately
9,212 corpus weight
- ocher
ocher
9,211 corpus weight
- Ojibwe
Ojibwe
9,209 corpus weight
- Okun
Okun
9,208 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ocher” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocher |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈoʊkɚ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ocher” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ocher is uncommon English at frequency #90,790 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈoʊkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of ochre.".
ocher has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ocher, spelled O-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of ochre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ocher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] facing the sea with buff and ocher houses that rise five or six stories above a curving boulevard […]
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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