oeuf de cent ans
\œf də sɑ̃.t‿ɑ̃\
The verdict
“oeuf de cent ans” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a typographic variant - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique d’œuf de cent ans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oeuf de cent ans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \œf də sɑ̃.t‿ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oeuf de cent ans” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oeuf de cent ans is 16 letters long, classified as a typographic variant, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œf də sɑ̃.t‿ɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique d’œuf de cent ans.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oeuf de cent ans in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 oeuf de cent ans, spelled O-E-U-F- -D-E- -C-E-N-T- -A-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique d’œuf de cent ans.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-E-U-F- -D-E- -C-E-N-T- -A-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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