octave
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,698
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
octave is aFrenchnoun. It means: Huitaine, espace de huit jours consacré, dans l’église romaine, à solenniser quelque grande fête. Pronounced \ɔk.tav\. Often confused with otage and octavia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.tav\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for octave is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔk.tav\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,698 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for octave, with forms such as "cotave", "ocatve", and "occtave". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "otage", "octavia", "océane", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 octave, spelled O-C-T-A-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Huitaine, espace de huit jours consacré, dans l’église romaine, à solenniser quelque grande fête.
- 2Dernier jour de l’octave, qui correspond, comme jour de la semaine, à la fête qu’on célèbre.
- 3Huitaine, durée de huit jours.
- 4Intervalle de huit degrés.
- 5Consonance que font deux notes éloignées l’une de l’autre de huit degrés, les deux extrêmes comprises.
- 6Huit notes comprises dans cet intervalle.
- 7Large intervalle entre deux éléments.
- 8Gamme, mode.
- 9Stance de huit vers employées dans la poésie italienne, espagnole et portugaise.
- 10À un niveau différent (supérieur ou inférieur).
- 11Huitième position de l’épée, que l’on tient le poignet en supination.
- 12En joaillerie c’est la huitième partie d’un marc soit 30,59 grammes, en draperie c’est la huitième partie d’une aune soit presque 14 centimètres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cotave,ocatve,occtave,octaev,octavve,octtave,octvae,otcave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for octave
Misspelling Variants of "octave"
Frequency rank: #15,698 in French
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