oft
\ɔft\
The verdict
“oft” is uncommon French (frequency #72,586 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,586
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Souvent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oft · oft · French
oft · rank #72,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,586
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Octavius
Nearest frequency peer: Octavius (-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 « oft »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nécromancien
nécromancien
27,418 corpus weight
- obscurci
obscurci
27,417 corpus weight
- Octavius
Octavius
27,416 corpus weight
- oft
oft
27,415 corpus weight
- often
often
27,414 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologiste
27,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oft » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɔft\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oft » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oft is uncommon French at frequency #72,586 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɔft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Souvent.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for oft, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oft, spelled O-F-T.
Definition
- 1Souvent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir gehen oft zum Strand.
Wie oft sind Sie in dieser Woche ins Kino gegangen?
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Antonyms
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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