osez
\o.ze\
The verdict
“osez” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,855
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de oser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osez · osez · French
osez · rank #13,855 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,855
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvrira
Nearest frequency peer: ouvrira (+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 « osez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- optimisme
optimisme
86,149 corpus weight
- ores
ores
86,148 corpus weight
- osez
osez
86,146 corpus weight
- ouvrira
ouvrira
86,145 corpus weight
- parue
parue
86,144 corpus weight
- passive
passive
86,143 corpus weight
What this shows « osez » 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 | osez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ze\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « osez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around osez (IPA \o.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,855 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for osez, with forms such as "oesz", "osezz", and "ossez". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ost", "ôté", "osm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is osez, spelled O-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de oser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de oser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how osez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous osez exprimer vos sentiments.
« Le plus important, c’est avoir du personnel et des agents de sécurité formés sur les violences sexuelles, qui croient les victimes et ne font pas d’erreurs juste après l’agression », souligne Fabienne El Khoury, porte-parole de l’association Osez le féminisme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oesz
- osezz
- ossez
- osze
- soez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of osez - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "osez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).