octroi

\ɔk.tʁwa\

/\ɔk.tʁwa\/ noun

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The verdict

“octroi” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,628
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’octroyer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-octroi · octroi · French

octroi · rank #12,628 · 8 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,628
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH nourris

Nearest frequency peer: nourris (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « octroi »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « octroi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

octroi vs octroie
86% similar
octroi vs octroyé
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for octroi
PropertyValue
Headwordoctroi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔk.tʁwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,628
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « octroi »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).octroise place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « nourris » (#12,627), « palier » (#12,629), « notez » (#12,626). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « octroi » est au #12,628. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around octroi (IPA \ɔk.tʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,628 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for octroi, with forms such as "cotroi", "occtroi", and "ocrtoi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "octroie", "octroyé", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is octroi, spelled O-C-T-R-O-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’octroyer.
  2. 2
    Ce qu’on octroie.
  3. 3
    Certains droits que les villes étaient autorisées à lever sur les denrées qui entraient dans leur enceinte et dont elles affectaient le produit au budget municipal.
  4. 4
    Administration chargée de percevoir ces droits.
  5. 5
    Bâtiment dans lequel cette administration prélevait ces taxes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how octroi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'octroi du droit de propriété aux juifs n'alla pas sans provoquer des protestations de la part du pape Étienne III.
  2. Révoquer un octroi.

This word in other languages

grant(English)otorgamiento(Español)Citymaut(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cotroi
  • occtroi
  • ocrtoi
  • octori
  • octrio
  • octrroi
  • octtroi
  • otcroi

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of octroi - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

cotroi2occtroi1ocrtoi2octori2octrio2octrroi1octtroi1otcroi2
Edit distance from "octroi"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "octroi"?
"octroi" is spelled O-C-T-R-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔk.tʁwa\.
What does "octroi" mean?
As a noun, "octroi" means: Action d’octroyer.
What words are commonly confused with "octroi"?
"octroi" is commonly confused with "octroie", "octroyé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "octroi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "octroi" is \ɔk.tʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "octroi" come from?
"octroi" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "octroi", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

palier#12,629niquer#12,625Neymar#12,624moelle#12,621

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

nourris8 variantsmouillé8 variantsredire8 variantsrigolo8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list