oblongue
\ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“oblongue” is uncommon French (frequency #68,512 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,512
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de oblong.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oblongue · oblongue · French
oblongue · rank #68,512 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,512
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oahu
Nearest frequency peer: Oahu (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « oblongue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Normandin
Normandin
31,493 corpus weight
- nunc
nunc
31,491 corpus weight
- Oahu
Oahu
31,490 corpus weight
- oblongue
oblongue
31,489 corpus weight
- obusiers
obusiers
31,488 corpus weight
- octo
octo
31,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oblongue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oblongue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oblongue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oblongue is uncommon French at frequency #68,512 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de oblong.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oblongue in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oblongue, spelled O-B-L-O-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de oblong.
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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