Oisans
\wa.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“Oisans” is uncommon French (frequency #56,792 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,792
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région des Alpes, située dans les départements de l'Isère et des Hautes-Alpes, et correspondant au bassin de la rivière Romanche et de ses affluents (l'Eau d'Olle, la Lignarre, la Sarenne, le Vénéo...
Corpus desk
Index FR-oisans · Oisans · French
Oisans · rank #56,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,792
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstinent
Nearest frequency peer: obstinent (-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 « Oisans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nîmois
Nîmois
43,212 corpus weight
- oblivion
oblivion
43,211 corpus weight
- obstinent
obstinent
43,210 corpus weight
- Oisans
Oisans
43,209 corpus weight
- olfactive
olfactive
43,207 corpus weight
- omniprésent…
omniprésentes
43,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oisans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oisans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wa.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oisans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oisans is uncommon French at frequency #56,792 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \wa.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Région des Alpes, située dans les départements de l'Isère et des Hautes-Alpes, et correspondant au bassin de la rivière Romanche et de ses affluents (l'Eau d'Olle, la Lignarre, la Sarenne, le Vénéo...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Oisans, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Oisans, spelled O-I-S-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Région des Alpes, située dans les départements de l'Isère et des Hautes-Alpes, et correspondant au bassin de la rivière Romanche et de ses affluents (l'Eau d'Olle, la Lignarre, la Sarenne, le Vénéon, le Ferrand).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Oisans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Oisans correspond aux cantons de Bourg-d'Oisans et de La Grave.
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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