oies
\wa\
The verdict
“oies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,412) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,412
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de oie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oies · oies · French
oies · rank #21,412 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,412
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Omer
Nearest frequency peer: Omer (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « oies »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- natifs
natifs
78,593 corpus weight
- Occitanie
Occitanie
78,591 corpus weight
- oies
oies
78,589 corpus weight
- Omer
Omer
78,588 corpus weight
- Oregon
Oregon
78,587 corpus weight
- Ostende
Ostende
78,585 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « oies » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « oies »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oies is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "one", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \wa\. Frequency #21,412 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de oie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for oies, with forms such as "ioes", "oeis", and "oiess". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "one", "ose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is oies, spelled O-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de oie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des oies sauvages.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ioes
- oeis
- oiess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).