OCDE

\ɔ.se.de.ø\

/\ɔ.se.de.ø\/ noun

The verdict

“OCDE” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,711) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#9,711
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation internationale d’études économiques, dont les pays membres, des pays développés, ont en commun un système de gouvernement démocratique et une économie de marché.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ocde · OCDE · French

OCDE · rank #9,711 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,711
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH observateurs

Nearest frequency peer: observateurs (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « OCDE »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « OCDE » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

OCDE vs od
0% similar
OCDE vs one
0% similar
OCDE vs ose
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for OCDE
PropertyValue
HeadwordOCDE
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.se.de.ø\
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,711
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OCDE »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).OCDEse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « observateurs » (#9,710), « organisent » (#9,712), « nôtres » (#9,709). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « OCDE » est au #9,711. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for OCDE is neighbouring look-alikes ("od", "one", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔ.se.de.ø\. Frequency #9,711 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Organisation internationale d’études économiques, dont les pays membres, des pays développés, ont en commun un système de gouvernement démocratique et une économie de marché.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for OCDE, with forms such as "occde", "ocdde", and "oced". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "od", "one", "ose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is OCDE, spelled O-C-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisation internationale d’études économiques, dont les pays membres, des pays développés, ont en commun un système de gouvernement démocratique et une économie de marché.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how OCDE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le NPD rappelle que 82% des morts liées à la COVID-19 sont survenues dans ces centres, soit la proportion la plus élevée de toute l’OCDE (…].

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • occde
  • ocdde
  • oced
  • odce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of OCDE - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

occde1ocdde1oced2odce2
Edit distance from "OCDE"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "OCDE"?
"OCDE" is spelled O-C-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.se.de.ø\.
What does "OCDE" mean?
As a noun, "OCDE" means: Organisation internationale d’études économiques, dont les pays membres, des pays développés, ont en commun un système de gouvernement démocratique et une économie de marché.
What words are commonly confused with "OCDE"?
"OCDE" is commonly confused with "od", "one", "ose". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "OCDE"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "OCDE" is \ɔ.se.de.ø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "OCDE" come from?
"OCDE" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "OCDE", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list