océanographe
\ɔ.se.a.nɔ.ɡʁaf\
The verdict
“océanographe” is uncommon French (frequency #73,398 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,398
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste qui étudie les océans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oceanographe · océanographe · French
océanographe · rank #73,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,398
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH olfactifs
Nearest frequency peer: olfactifs (+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 « océanographe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nosocomiales
nosocomiales
26,609 corpus weight
- Nys
Nys
26,607 corpus weight
- océanographe
océanographe
26,603 corpus weight
- olfactifs
olfactifs
26,602 corpus weight
- ombragées
ombragées
26,600 corpus weight
- omnivores
omnivores
26,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « océanographe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | océanographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.se.a.nɔ.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « océanographe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
océanographe is uncommon French at frequency #73,398 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.se.a.nɔ.ɡʁaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialiste qui étudie les océans.".
océanographe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is océanographe, spelled O-C-É-A-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste qui étudie les océans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how océanographe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Doron Nof, océanographe d’origine israélienne expose sa version du miracle dans le Journal de la paléolimnologie, revue reconstituant l'histoire des lacs.
This word in other languages
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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