eau oxygénée
\o ɔk.si.ʒe.ne\
The verdict
“eau oxygénée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Solution aqueuse de peroxyde d’hydrogène. À 3% de concentration, elle est utilisée comme désinfectant antiseptique et hémostatique. Les dosages plus élevées, à partir de 10%, sont des décolorants e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau oxygénée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o ɔk.si.ʒe.ne\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau oxygénée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau oxygénée is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o ɔk.si.ʒe.ne\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for eau oxygénée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is eau oxygénée, spelled E-A-U- -O-X-Y-G-É-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solution aqueuse de peroxyde d’hydrogène. À 3% de concentration, elle est utilisée comme désinfectant antiseptique et hémostatique. Les dosages plus élevées, à partir de 10%, sont des décolorants et commencent à être caustiques. Au delà de 30% de concentration, c'est un produit dangereux, très réactif qui doit être utilisé avec des connaissances en chimie et des protections adaptées.
- 2Eau avec du dioxygène dissous.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -O-X-Y-G-É-N-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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