oni
\ɔ.ni\
The verdict
“oni” is uncommon French (frequency #55,481 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,481
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Créature légendaire humanoïde dotée de cornes, d’un pagne en peau de tigre et d’une massue en métal. Présente dans les croyances religieuses et populaires où il est associé à un mauvais esprit comm...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ni\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oni” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oni is uncommon French at frequency #55,481 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créature légendaire humanoïde dotée de cornes, d’un pagne en peau de tigre et d’une massue en métal. Présente dans les croyances religieuses et populaires où il est associé à un mauvais esprit comm...".
Zero misspellings are on record for oni in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oni, spelled O-N-I.
Definition
- 1Créature légendaire humanoïde dotée de cornes, d’un pagne en peau de tigre et d’une massue en métal. Présente dans les croyances religieuses et populaires où il est associé à un mauvais esprit comme un démon, ou bien dans les contes et légendes où il est associé à une figure monstrueuse comme un ogre ou une sorcière.
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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Using “oni”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-N-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ.ni\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.