oie
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,452
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau palmipède aquatique, apparenté au canard mais plus gros et plus grand, vivant à l’état sauvage ou à l’état domestique. Pronounced \wa\. Often confused with on and ou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oie is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,452 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is oie, spelled O-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau palmipède aquatique, apparenté au canard mais plus gros et plus grand, vivant à l’état sauvage ou à l’état domestique.
- 2Femelle de cette espèce, le mâle étant le jars.
- 3Indistinctement, bernache du Canada (« outarde ») ou oie des neiges (« oie blanche »).
- 4Personne sotte.
- 5Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée passante sans aucun caractère particulier la distinguant du jars, ce qui peut induire une confusion. À rapprocher de canard, cane, canette, cygne et jars.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #15,452 in French
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