ochreous
"ochreous" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ochreous” is uncommon English (frequency #80,720 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,720
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of ochrous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ochreous · ochreous · English
ochreous · rank #80,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,720
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH obsequious
Nearest frequency peer: obsequious (-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 “ochreous”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nuzzling
nuzzling
19,287 corpus weight
- NVMe
NVMe
19,286 corpus weight
- obsequious
obsequious
19,282 corpus weight
- ochreous
ochreous
19,281 corpus weight
- Oedipal
Oedipal
19,280 corpus weight
- Ogier
Ogier
19,278 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ochreous” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ochreous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ochreous” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ochreous is uncommon English at frequency #80,720 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of ochrous.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ochreous in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ochreous, spelled O-C-H-R-E-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of ochrous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ochreous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The contact of the air causes the water to deposit an ochreous, brown precipitate, which contains the basic crenate of the peroxide of iron, together with the apocrenate.
The white-walled drawing-room, dim in the ochreous twilight of drawn blinds, was hung with Richard's Italian water-colours and other pictorial mementos of the honeymoon[…]
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).