oblongues
\ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“oblongues” is uncommon French (frequency #74,237 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,237
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de oblong.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oblongues · oblongues · French
oblongues · rank #74,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,237
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Nyons
Nearest frequency peer: Nyons (-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 « oblongues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- novelli
novelli
25,767 corpus weight
- nuis
nuis
25,766 corpus weight
- Nyons
Nyons
25,765 corpus weight
- oblongues
oblongues
25,764 corpus weight
- obscénités
obscénités
25,763 corpus weight
- obéisse
obéisse
25,762 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oblongues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oblongues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oblongues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oblongues is uncommon French at frequency #74,237 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.blɔ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de oblong.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oblongues, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oblongues, spelled O-B-L-O-N-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel 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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