Ogooué
\o.ɡwe\
The verdict
“Ogooué” is uncommon French (frequency #61,746 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,746
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve principal du Gabon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ogooue · Ogooué · French
Ogooué · rank #61,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,746
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH octogonale
Nearest frequency peer: octogonale (-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 « Ogooué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obsidienne
obsidienne
38,259 corpus weight
- occasionnent
occasionnent
38,258 corpus weight
- octavie
octavie
38,257 corpus weight
- octogonale
octogonale
38,256 corpus weight
- Ogooué
Ogooué
38,255 corpus weight
- oligocène
oligocène
38,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ogooué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ogooué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ɡwe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ogooué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ogooué is uncommon French at frequency #61,746 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.ɡwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleuve principal du Gabon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ogooué in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ogooué, spelled O-G-O-O-U-É.
Definition
- 1Fleuve principal du Gabon.
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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