Onex
\ɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“Onex” is uncommon French (frequency #87,911 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,911
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onex · Onex · French
Onex · rank #87,911 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,911
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH omniscience
Nearest frequency peer: omniscience (-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 « Onex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ogivale
ogivale
12,093 corpus weight
- olfaction
olfaction
12,092 corpus weight
- omniscience
omniscience
12,091 corpus weight
- Onex
Onex
12,090 corpus weight
- oppressés
oppressés
12,088 corpus weight
- orangistes
orangistes
12,087 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Onex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Onex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Onex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Onex is uncommon French at frequency #87,911 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Onex in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Onex, spelled O-N-E-X.
Definition
- 1Ville et commune du canton de Genève en Suisse.
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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