Ostende
\ɔs.tɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Ostende” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,416
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ostende · Ostende · French
Ostende · rank #21,416 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH paquebot
Nearest frequency peer: paquebot (+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 « Ostende »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Omer
Omer
78,588 corpus weight
- Oregon
Oregon
78,587 corpus weight
- Ostende
Ostende
78,585 corpus weight
- paquebot
paquebot
78,584 corpus weight
- pathologique
pathologique
78,583 corpus weight
- pensionnaire
pensionnaire
78,582 corpus weight
What this shows « Ostende » 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 | Ostende |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.tɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ostende »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Ostende (IPA \ɔs.tɑ̃d\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,416 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ostende, with forms such as "osetnde", "osstende", and "ostedne". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "obtenue", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Ostende, spelled O-S-T-E-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ostende appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cette époque de la guerre de Succession d'Espagne qui faisait de la mer du Nord un terrain de chasse admirable, toute une génération de corsaires était née spontanément à Ostende.
En l'espace d'une marée Ostende s'isolait au large, revenait à la mer, et tous ses ponts levés se refermait derrière ses remparts battus par les vagues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osetnde
- osstende
- ostedne
- ostendde
- ostened
- ostennde
- ostnede
- osttende
- otsende
- sotende
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ostende - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).