ocre jaune
\ɔkʁ ʒon\
The verdict
“ocre jaune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terre argileuse (limonite).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocre jaune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔkʁ ʒon\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ocre jaune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ocre jaune is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔkʁ ʒon\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ocre jaune in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ocre jaune, spelled O-C-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terre argileuse (limonite).
- 2Couleur de cette terre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-C-R-E- -J-A-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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