Oscar
\ɔs.kaʁ\
The verdict
“Oscar” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,055
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oscar · Oscar · French
Oscar · rank #5,055 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,055
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH off
Nearest frequency peer: off (-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 « Oscar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mémoires
mémoires
94,949 corpus weight
- observations
observations
94,948 corpus weight
- off
off
94,947 corpus weight
- Oscar
Oscar
94,946 corpus weight
- panique
panique
94,945 corpus weight
- passées
passées
94,944 corpus weight
What this shows « Oscar » 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 | Oscar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Oscar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Oscar (IPA \ɔs.kaʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,055 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Oscar, with forms such as "ocsar", "osacr", and "oscarr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "oser", "OSCE", "osier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Oscar, spelled O-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
- 2Surnom autrefois donné aux squelettes humains des classes de sciences naturelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Oscar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oscar de Bennetot ne dérageait pas, à tel point que, dans son instinct de hobereau mal dégrossi, il proposait simplement de jeter « tout cela » par-dessus bord, c’est-à-dire par l’un des orifices.
Du côté de la Colombie, le journaliste Oscar Castillo Vaquero brandit quant à lui « la solidarité sud-américaine ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ocsar
- osacr
- oscarr
- osccar
- oscra
- osscar
- socar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Oscar - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).