ostensoir
\ɔs.tɑ̃.swaʁ\
The verdict
“ostensoir” is uncommon French (frequency #96,206 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,206
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet de culte, en forme de soleil comportant en son centre une custode de verre ou lunule, dans lequel est exposé le Saint-Sacrement pour le salut et les processions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ostensoir · ostensoir · French
ostensoir · rank #96,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,206
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH organiserait
Nearest frequency peer: organiserait (-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 « ostensoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opiacé
opiacé
3,798 corpus weight
- opposeraient
opposeraient
3,797 corpus weight
- organiserait
organiserait
3,796 corpus weight
- ostensoir
ostensoir
3,795 corpus weight
- Oulipo
Oulipo
3,794 corpus weight
- Ouranos
Ouranos
3,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ostensoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostensoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.tɑ̃.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ostensoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ostensoir is uncommon French at frequency #96,206 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔs.tɑ̃.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Objet de culte, en forme de soleil comportant en son centre une custode de verre ou lunule, dans lequel est exposé le Saint-Sacrement pour le salut et les processions.".
ostensoir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ostensoir, spelled O-S-T-E-N-S-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Objet de culte, en forme de soleil comportant en son centre une custode de verre ou lunule, dans lequel est exposé le Saint-Sacrement pour le salut et les processions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ostensoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu as donné à la paroisse un ostensoir de cinq mille francs.
Ton souvenir en moi luit comme un ostensoir !
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).