octroya
\ok.tʁwa.ja\
The verdict
“octroya” is uncommon French (frequency #96,194 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,194
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de octroyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-octroya · octroya · French
octroya · rank #96,194 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,194
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offensantes
Nearest frequency peer: offensantes (+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 « octroya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- notais
notais
3,811 corpus weight
- novels
novels
3,810 corpus weight
- NTSC
NTSC
3,809 corpus weight
- octroya
octroya
3,807 corpus weight
- offensantes
offensantes
3,806 corpus weight
- offertoire
offertoire
3,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « octroya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octroya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ok.tʁwa.ja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « octroya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
octroya is uncommon French at frequency #96,194 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ok.tʁwa.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de octroyer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for octroya in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is octroya, spelled O-C-T-R-O-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de octroyer.
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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