okapi
\ɔ.ka.pi\
The verdict
“okapi” is uncommon French (frequency #54,767 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,767
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de ruminant des forêts équatoriales de l’Afrique centrale, de la même famille que la girafe, plus petit et qui a des zébrures noires et blanches sur les pattes et l’arrière train.
Corpus desk
Index FR-okapi · okapi · French
okapi · rank #54,767 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,767
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obédiences
Nearest frequency peer: obédiences (-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 « okapi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nudiste
nudiste
45,237 corpus weight
- obédiences
obédiences
45,235 corpus weight
- okapi
okapi
45,234 corpus weight
- oligarchique
oligarchique
45,233 corpus weight
- ollie
ollie
45,232 corpus weight
- omd
omd
45,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « okapi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | okapi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ka.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « okapi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
okapi is uncommon French at frequency #54,767 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ka.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de ruminant des forêts équatoriales de l’Afrique centrale, de la même famille que la girafe, plus petit et qui a des zébrures noires et blanches sur les pattes et l’arrière train.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for okapi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is okapi, spelled O-K-A-P-I.
Definition
- 1Espèce de ruminant des forêts équatoriales de l’Afrique centrale, de la même famille que la girafe, plus petit et qui a des zébrures noires et blanches sur les pattes et l’arrière train.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how okapi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’okapi se reconnaît à ses pattes rayées comme un zèbre et à son allure de girafe sans tache et au petit cou.
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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