osso
\ˈɔs.so\
The verdict
“osso” is uncommon French (frequency #90,998 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,998
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Os, squelette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osso · osso · French
osso · rank #90,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,998
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Osny
Nearest frequency peer: Osny (-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 « osso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opposite
opposite
9,007 corpus weight
- orfraie
orfraie
9,006 corpus weight
- ornementaux
ornementaux
9,005 corpus weight
- Osny
Osny
9,004 corpus weight
- osso
osso
9,003 corpus weight
- ouvreuse
ouvreuse
9,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « osso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɔs.so\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « osso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
osso is uncommon French at frequency #90,998 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɔs.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Os, squelette.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for osso in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 osso, spelled O-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Os, squelette.
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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