oral
French, noun/ɔ.ʁal/
oral is spelled O-R-A-L (4 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oral is a French masculine noun meaning “an oral exam, a viva, a viva voce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui s’exprime de vive voix ; langue parlée”.
What does oral mean in English?
adjective
- 1
oral
noun
- 1
masculinean oral exam, a viva, a viva voce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est exprimé ou transmis de vive voix, par opposition à écrit. 2. Qualifie les examens qui consistent uniquement en interrogations. 3. Relatif à la bouche. 4. Qualifie un son qui est émis uniquement par la bouche, par opposition à nasal.
noun: 1. Ce qui s’exprime de vive voix ; langue parlée. 2. Examen qui se déroule à l’oral.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oral
- orale feminine
- oraux masculine plural
- orales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oral?
- /ɔ.ʁal/
- \ɔ.ʁal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oral
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oral in French?
oral appears 8.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).