Oldenbourg
\ɔl.dɛ̃.buʁ\
The verdict
“Oldenbourg” is uncommon French (frequency #76,851 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,851
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oldenbourg · Oldenbourg · French
Oldenbourg · rank #76,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,851
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oger
Nearest frequency peer: Oger (-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 « Oldenbourg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oestrogènes
oestrogènes
23,153 corpus weight
- offensants
offensants
23,152 corpus weight
- Oger
Oger
23,151 corpus weight
- Oldenbourg
Oldenbourg
23,150 corpus weight
- olli
olli
23,149 corpus weight
- Olt
Olt
23,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oldenbourg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oldenbourg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔl.dɛ̃.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oldenbourg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oldenbourg is uncommon French at frequency #76,851 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔl.dɛ̃.buʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Oldenbourg, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Oldenbourg, spelled O-L-D-E-N-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne, située dans la Basse-Saxe.
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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