osais
\o.zɛ\
The verdict
“osais” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,898. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,898
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de oser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osais · osais · French
osais · rank #27,898 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,898
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orphée
Nearest frequency peer: orphée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « osais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opposa
opposa
72,106 corpus weight
- orphée
orphée
72,104 corpus weight
- osais
osais
72,103 corpus weight
- osait
osait
72,102 corpus weight
- osseux
osseux
72,101 corpus weight
- padoue
padoue
72,100 corpus weight
What this shows « osais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « osais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around osais (IPA \o.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,898 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for osais, with forms such as "oasis", "osaiss", and "osasi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ouai", "ouais", "ouaip", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is osais, spelled O-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de oser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de oser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how osais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’osais pas trop borgnotter le Prince à cet instant, picorer sur son visage ses réactions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oasis
- osaiss
- osasi
- osias
- ossais
- soais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of osais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).