ocho
\o.tʃo\
The verdict
“ocho” is uncommon French (frequency #80,466 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,466
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Huit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ocho · ocho · French
ocho · rank #80,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,466
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obligeaient
Nearest frequency peer: obligeaient (-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 « ocho »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- néoclassiqu…
néoclassiques
19,538 corpus weight
- névralgie
névralgie
19,537 corpus weight
- obligeaient
obligeaient
19,536 corpus weight
- ocho
ocho
19,535 corpus weight
- officient
officient
19,534 corpus weight
- opulent
opulent
19,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ocho » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.tʃo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ocho » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ocho is uncommon French at frequency #80,466 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.tʃo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Huit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ocho in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ocho, spelled O-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Huit.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).