OCR
\o.se.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“OCR” is uncommon French (frequency #86,976 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,976
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reconnaissance optique de caractères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ocr · OCR · French
OCR · rank #86,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,976
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oceania
Nearest frequency peer: Oceania (-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 « OCR »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Occam
Occam
13,028 corpus weight
- occultent
occultent
13,027 corpus weight
- Oceania
Oceania
13,026 corpus weight
- OCR
OCR
13,025 corpus weight
- officialité
officialité
13,024 corpus weight
- oir
oir
13,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « OCR » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OCR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.se.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « OCR » en français
Rare enough to double-check
OCR is uncommon French at frequency #86,976 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.se.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Reconnaissance optique de caractères.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for OCR in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is OCR, spelled O-C-R.
Definition
- 1Reconnaissance optique de caractères.
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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