osage
\ɔ.sa.ʒe\
The verdict
“osage” is uncommon French (frequency #85,085 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,085
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Osages ou au territoire qu’ils habitent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osage · osage · French
osage · rank #85,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,085
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ormond
Nearest frequency peer: Ormond (-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 « osage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ordine
ordine
14,920 corpus weight
- organizatio…
organizations
14,919 corpus weight
- orientalis
orientalis
14,918 corpus weight
- Ormond
Ormond
14,917 corpus weight
- osage
osage
14,916 corpus weight
- Otero
Otero
14,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « osage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.sa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « osage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
osage is uncommon French at frequency #85,085 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.sa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for osage in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is osage, spelled O-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Osages ou au territoire qu’ils habitent.
- 2Relatif à la langue des Osages, à l’osage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how osage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout le monde préférait laisser s’exprimer les deux représentants du peuple amérindien Osage, Lily Gladstone et Standing Bear (Ours debout), le chef de la tribu, qui ont participé à Killers of the Flower Moon.
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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