onc
\ɔ̃k\
The verdict
“onc” is uncommon French (frequency #91,998 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,998
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de onques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onc · onc · French
onc · rank #91,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,998
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH omri
Nearest frequency peer: omri (-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 « onc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Omeyyades
Omeyyades
8,005 corpus weight
- omri
omri
8,004 corpus weight
- onc
onc
8,003 corpus weight
- opens
opens
8,002 corpus weight
- opportunes
opportunes
8,001 corpus weight
- optimisent
optimisent
8,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « onc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ɔ̃k\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onc is uncommon French at frequency #91,998 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ɔ̃k\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de onques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for onc in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is onc, spelled O-N-C.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de onques.
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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