ose
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,950
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ose is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom générique donné aux substances organiques non hydrolysables possédant un groupe réducteur, aldéhyde ou cétone, et plus de deux fonctions alcooliques. On les divise en trioses, tétroses, pentose... Pronounced \oz\. It ranks #3,950 in French word frequency. Often confused with ou and ow.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \oz\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ose is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \oz\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,950 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ose in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "ow", "ox", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ose, spelled O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom générique donné aux substances organiques non hydrolysables possédant un groupe réducteur, aldéhyde ou cétone, et plus de deux fonctions alcooliques. On les divise en trioses, tétroses, pentoses, hexoses et heptoses… suivant qu’ils renferment 3, 4, 5, 6 ou 7… atomes de carbone. On les distingue aussi en aldoses et cétoses suivant qu’ils ont des fonctions aldéhydes ou cétoniques.
- 2Composé chimique de formule brute générale CₙH₂ₙOₙ, formé d’une chaîne d’atomes de carbone portant chacun une fonction alcool (-OH), sauf un qui porte une fonction carbonyle (-CO-).
Frequency rank: #3,950 in French
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