OQLF
\o.ky.ɛl.ɛf\
The verdict
“OQLF” is uncommon French (frequency #82,302 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,302
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Office québécois de la langue française.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oqlf · OQLF · French
OQLF · rank #82,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,302
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ophtalmologiq…
Nearest frequency peer: ophtalmologique (-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 « OQLF »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ONDRP
ONDRP
17,702 corpus weight
- operator
operator
17,701 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologique
17,700 corpus weight
- OQLF
OQLF
17,699 corpus weight
- orthogonale
orthogonale
17,698 corpus weight
- OSBL
OSBL
17,697 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « OQLF » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OQLF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ky.ɛl.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « OQLF » en français
Rare enough to double-check
OQLF is uncommon French at frequency #82,302 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.ky.ɛl.ɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Office québécois de la langue française.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for OQLF in our 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 OQLF, spelled O-Q-L-F.
Definition
- 1Office québécois de la langue française.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OQLF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces données, rendues publiques en vertu de la Loi sur l’accès à l’information, regroupent les plaintes jugées recevables par l’OQLF sur la langue de service, c’est-à-dire quand un citoyen ne peut être servi en français même après en avoir fait la demande.
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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