onguent
\ɔ̃.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“onguent” is uncommon French (frequency #60,246 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,246
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médicament d’une consistance molle (pommade), que l’on obtient en faisant fondre des corps gras et des résines, et que l’on applique sur les plaies, les tumeurs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onguent · onguent · French
onguent · rank #60,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,246
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH onctueux
Nearest frequency peer: onctueux (-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 « onguent »
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 « onguent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onguent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « onguent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
onguent is uncommon French at frequency #60,246 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ̃.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
onguent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is onguent, spelled O-N-G-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Médicament d’une consistance molle (pommade), que l’on obtient en faisant fondre des corps gras et des résines, et que l’on applique sur les plaies, les tumeurs, etc.
- 2Produit aromatique, essence dont on se parfumait et dont on embaumait les corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how onguent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ensuite oignez la plaie d’un onguent fait avec graisse, huile & cire.
Nos glaives de théâtre n’ont ni fil ni pointe, car ils ne doivent porter que de feintes blessures dont on se guérit subitement à la fin de la pièce, et cela sans onguent, charpie ou thériaque.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).