oat
\əʊt\
The verdict
“oat” is uncommon French (frequency #76,842 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,842
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avena, le genre des avoines, famille des Poacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oat · oat · French
oat · rank #76,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,842
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH négligente
Nearest frequency peer: négligente (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “oat”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nuisant
nuisant
23,162 corpus weight
- nuri
nuri
23,161 corpus weight
- négligente
négligente
23,160 corpus weight
- oat
oat
23,159 corpus weight
- oberlin
oberlin
23,158 corpus weight
- obélisques
obélisques
23,157 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oat” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \əʊt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “oat” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
oat is uncommon French at frequency #76,842 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \əʊt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for oat in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 French form is oat, spelled O-A-T.
Definition
- 1Avena, le genre des avoines, famille des Poacées.
- 2Avena sativa, l'avoine cultivée.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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