Ogilvy
\əʊɡlvɪ\
The verdict
“Ogilvy” is uncommon French (frequency #63,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,211
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ogilvy · Ogilvy · French
Ogilvy · rank #63,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,211
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH officiait
Nearest frequency peer: officiait (-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 « Ogilvy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- odorant
odorant
36,793 corpus weight
- offer
offer
36,792 corpus weight
- officiait
officiait
36,791 corpus weight
- Ogilvy
Ogilvy
36,790 corpus weight
- oksana
oksana
36,789 corpus weight
- omo
omo
36,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ogilvy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ogilvy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \əʊɡlvɪ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ogilvy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ogilvy is uncommon French at frequency #63,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \əʊɡlvɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ogilvy in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Ogilvy, spelled O-G-I-L-V-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ogilvy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The clan Ogilvy.
David Ogilvy.
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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