octet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,126
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
octet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Séquence de huit bits, permettant de représenter 256 valeurs ou combinaisons. Pronounced \ɔk.tɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for octet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔk.tɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,126 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for octet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 octet, spelled O-C-T-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Séquence de huit bits, permettant de représenter 256 valeurs ou combinaisons.
- 2Unité de mesure de la quantité d’information numérique. Son symbole est o.
- 3Groupe de huit électrons disposés à chaque sommet d'un cube, imaginé pour expliquer la valence. ^([1])
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #58,126 in French
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