odd
\ˈɑd\
The verdict
“odd” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,076) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,076
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bizarre, étrange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-odd · odd · French
odd · rank #36,076 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,076
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occurrences
Nearest frequency peer: occurrences (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « odd »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- obtenons
obtenons
63,928 corpus weight
- occasionnés
occasionnés
63,927 corpus weight
- occurrences
occurrences
63,926 corpus weight
- odd
odd
63,925 corpus weight
- officie
officie
63,924 corpus weight
- olé
olé
63,923 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « odd » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɑd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « odd »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for odd is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈɑd\. Frequency #36,076 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for odd in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is odd, spelled O-D-D.
Definition
- 1Bizarre, étrange.
- 2Impair.
- 3(Combiné à un nombre, non comparable) À peu près, environ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chickens wearing hats are really odd.
Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).