Osaka
\o.sa.ka\
The verdict
“Osaka” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,637
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Japon, centre économique et culturel du Japon occidental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osaka · Osaka · French
Osaka · rank #22,637 · 6 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,637
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH optimistes
Nearest frequency peer: optimistes (-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 « Osaka »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- omniprésent
omniprésent
77,367 corpus weight
- omnium
omnium
77,366 corpus weight
- optimistes
optimistes
77,365 corpus weight
- Osaka
Osaka
77,364 corpus weight
- Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou
77,363 corpus weight
- Palerme
Palerme
77,362 corpus weight
What this shows « Osaka » 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 | Osaka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.sa.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Osaka »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Osaka (IPA \o.sa.ka\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,637 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 Osaka, with forms such as "oaska", "osaak", and "osakka". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "osera", "Oskar", "osant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Osaka, spelled O-S-A-K-A.
Definition
- 1Ville du Japon, centre économique et culturel du Japon occidental.
- 2Préfecture du Japon, dont la capitale est la précédente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Osaka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute la nuit, Yoseb avait biberonné une bouteille de doburoku dans un bar fréquenté par des Coréens non loin de la gare et s’était demandé s’il avait eu raison de faire venir le frêle pasteur à Osaka.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oaska
- osaak
- osakka
- oskaa
- ossaka
- soaka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Osaka - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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