oint
\wɛ̃\
The verdict
“oint” is uncommon French (frequency #67,742 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,742
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une onction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oint · oint · French
oint · rank #67,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,742
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ognon
Nearest frequency peer: ognon (-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 « oint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nénuphars
nénuphars
32,262 corpus weight
- névrosés
névrosés
32,261 corpus weight
- ognon
ognon
32,260 corpus weight
- oint
oint
32,259 corpus weight
- onion
onion
32,256 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologue
32,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oint is uncommon French at frequency #67,742 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \wɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oint, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is oint, spelled O-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une onction.
- 2Qui reçoit ou qui a reçu une onction.
- 3Qui est enduit d'une substance grasse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] l’épais sceptique qui s’endort au sermon, ridiculise doucement Sainte Cunégonde et Saint Cucufin, mais meurt oint, confessé et béni, un peu pour se conformer aux usages, un peu parce qu’on ne sait jamais.
Voici quelques semaines, avant le premier tour des élections législatives, nous vous racontions par le menu la manœuvre entreprise par Nicolas Sarkozy pour éradiquer, non sans succès, l’opposition. Et notamment comment le nouveau chef, oint du suffrage universel, s’apprêtait à verrouiller les médias. Avouons notre erreur : les médias se sont verrouillés e…
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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