oscillé
\ɔ.si.le\
The verdict
“oscillé” is uncommon French (frequency #83,221 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,221
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de osciller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oscille · oscillé · French
oscillé · rank #83,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,221
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oscillante
Nearest frequency peer: oscillante (-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 « oscillé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opérettes
opérettes
16,784 corpus weight
- oranje
oranje
16,783 corpus weight
- orchestrés
orchestrés
16,782 corpus weight
- oscillante
oscillante
16,781 corpus weight
- oscillé
oscillé
16,780 corpus weight
- oubliaient
oubliaient
16,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oscillé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oscillé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.si.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oscillé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oscillé is uncommon French at frequency #83,221 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.si.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de osciller.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for oscillé, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oscillé, spelled O-S-C-I-L-L-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de osciller.
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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