osciller
\ɔ.si.le\
The verdict
“osciller” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,078
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se déplacer alternativement en deux sens contraires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osciller · osciller · French
osciller · rank #44,078 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,078
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orb
Nearest frequency peer: orb (-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 « osciller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ones
ones
55,925 corpus weight
- orb
orb
55,924 corpus weight
- osciller
osciller
55,923 corpus weight
- othello
othello
55,922 corpus weight
- OUA
OUA
55,921 corpus weight
- oxymore
oxymore
55,920 corpus weight
What this shows « osciller » 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 | osciller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.si.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « osciller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around osciller (IPA \ɔ.si.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,078 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for osciller, with forms such as "ocsiller", "oscciller", and "oscilelr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "oseille", "oreiller", "oscillent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is osciller, spelled O-S-C-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se déplacer alternativement en deux sens contraires.
- 2Varier entre deux limites, entre deux bornes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how osciller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À leur pied, une fosse est ouverte, à moitié pleine ; sur le bord oscille un cadavre qu’étaient en train d’y jeter les ensevelisseurs déguerpis.
Des ses énormes battoirs, il me giflait à toute volée. Je tombais à genoux, mais j’étais incapable de me maintenir droit. J’oscillais tantôt à gauche, tantôt à droite […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ocsiller
- oscciller
- oscilelr
- osciler
- oscillerr
- oscillre
- oscliler
- osicller
- ossciller
- sociller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of osciller - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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