octaves
\ɔk.tav\
The verdict
“octaves” is uncommon French (frequency #55,475 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,475
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de octave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-octaves · octaves · French
octaves · rank #55,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,475
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occuperais
Nearest frequency peer: occuperais (-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 « octaves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuisette
nuisette
44,529 corpus weight
- négrier
négrier
44,528 corpus weight
- occuperais
occuperais
44,527 corpus weight
- octaves
octaves
44,526 corpus weight
- oesophage
oesophage
44,525 corpus weight
- ohm
ohm
44,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « octaves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.tav\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « octaves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
octaves is uncommon French at frequency #55,475 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔk.tav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de octave.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for octaves in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is octaves, spelled O-C-T-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de octave.
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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