onctueux
\ɔ̃k.tɥø\
The verdict
“onctueux” is uncommon French (frequency #60,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,245
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une substance grasse et douce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onctueux · onctueux · French
onctueux · rank #60,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,245
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ombragée
Nearest frequency peer: ombragée (-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 « onctueux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- OEA
OEA
39,758 corpus weight
- ombragée
ombragée
39,757 corpus weight
- onctueux
onctueux
39,756 corpus weight
- onguent
onguent
39,755 corpus weight
- OPCVM
OPCVM
39,754 corpus weight
- OpinionWay
OpinionWay
39,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « onctueux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onctueux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ̃k.tɥø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onctueux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onctueux is uncommon French at frequency #60,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ̃k.tɥø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
onctueux has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 onctueux, spelled O-N-C-T-U-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une substance grasse et douce.
- 2Se dit, et le plus souvent avec une nuance de critique, de ce qui a de l’onction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how onctueux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce chocolat est onctueux.
Cette liqueur a quelque chose d’onctueux.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).