offshores
\ɔf.ʃɔʁ\
The verdict
“offshores” is uncommon French (frequency #98,312 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,312
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de offshore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offshores · offshores · French
offshores · rank #98,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,312
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obras
Nearest frequency peer: obras (-2 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 « offshores »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obnubilée
obnubilée
1,692 corpus weight
- obras
obras
1,691 corpus weight
- offshores
offshores
1,689 corpus weight
- olivâtre
olivâtre
1,687 corpus weight
- ombilicale
ombilicale
1,686 corpus weight
- omnis
omnis
1,685 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « offshores » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offshores |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔf.ʃɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « offshores » en français
Rare enough to double-check
offshores is uncommon French at frequency #98,312 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔf.ʃɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de offshore.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for offshores, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is offshores, spelled O-F-F-S-H-O-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de offshore.
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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