ogival
\ɔ.ʒi.val\
The verdict
“ogival” is uncommon French (frequency #85,073 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,073
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui présente des ogives, dont le caractère est l’ogive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ogival · ogival · French
ogival · rank #85,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,073
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offrais
Nearest frequency peer: offrais (-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 « ogival »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obnubilés
obnubilés
14,932 corpus weight
- obsédant
obsédant
14,931 corpus weight
- occidentali…
occidentalisation
14,930 corpus weight
- offrais
offrais
14,929 corpus weight
- ogival
ogival
14,928 corpus weight
- ombilic
ombilic
14,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ogival » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ogival |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʒi.val\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ogival » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ogival is uncommon French at frequency #85,073 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.ʒi.val\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui présente des ogives, dont le caractère est l’ogive.".
ogival has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ogival, spelled O-G-I-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui présente des ogives, dont le caractère est l’ogive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ogival appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici ce qui est latin : toutes les arcades circulaires à plein cintre, aucune ogivale ; la voûte principale elle-même cintrée par des arcs semblables ; les piliers carrés, sans ornements, ayant seulement sur le devant une colonne demi-saillante qui monte pour expliquer et soutenir la voûte supérieure. Partant, une grande impression de solidité, quelque c…
Jamais l'état-major […] ne nous permettra de pénétrer dans cet exemple de ville, avec sa cathédrale ogivale au milieu, ses usines à droite, ses toits de tuile à gauche.
This word in other languages
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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