oesophage
\e.zɔ.faʒ\
The verdict
“oesophage” is uncommon French (frequency #55,476 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a typographic variant. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,476
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante par contrainte typographique d’œsophage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oesophage · oesophage · French
oesophage · rank #55,476 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,476
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH octaves
Nearest frequency peer: octaves (-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 « oesophage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- oléoducs
oléoducs
44,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oesophage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oesophage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \e.zɔ.faʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oesophage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oesophage is uncommon French at frequency #55,476 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as atypographic variant, transcribed \e.zɔ.faʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante par contrainte typographique d’œsophage.".
Zero misspellings are on record for oesophage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is oesophage, spelled O-E-S-O-P-H-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Variante par contrainte typographique d’œsophage.
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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