ossuaire

\ɔ.sɥɛʁ\

/\ɔ.sɥɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“ossuaire” is uncommon French (frequency #66,187 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,187
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amas d’ossements.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ossuaire · ossuaire · French

ossuaire · rank #66,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,187
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ougandaise

Nearest frequency peer: Ougandaise (+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 « ossuaire »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ossuaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ossuaire
PropertyValue
Headwordossuaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.sɥɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#66,187
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ossuaire » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.ossuairetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Ougandaise » (#66,188), « orthopédiques » (#66,185), « ornementales » (#66,184). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « ossuaire » est au #66,187. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ossuaire is uncommon French at frequency #66,187 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.sɥɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ossuaire, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ossuaire, spelled O-S-S-U-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Amas d’ossements.
  2. 2
    Endroit couvert où l’on met des ossements humains.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ossuaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’où venait cet ossuaire? M. Ledru avait présidé à l’exhumation des rois à Saint-Denis, et il avait pris dans chaque tombeau ce qui lui avait plu.
  2. — Aussi la prairie, théâtre sinistre de combats incessants et terribles, n’est-elle en réalité qu’un vaste ossuaire, où s’engloutissent obscurément chaque année, dans une guerre d’embuscades sans merci, des milliers d’hommes intrépides.

This word in other languages

ossuary(English)osario(Español)Beinhaus(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ossuaire"?
"ossuaire" is spelled O-S-S-U-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.sɥɛʁ\.
What does "ossuaire" mean?
As a noun, "ossuaire" means: Amas d’ossements.
How do you pronounce "ossuaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ossuaire" is \ɔ.sɥɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ossuaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oxydants#66,190partiras#66,204odieuses#66,169obstruer#66,167

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list