ostensoir
\ɔs.tɑ̃.swaʁ\
The verdict
“ostensoir” is uncommon French (frequency #96,206 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,206
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “ostensoir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ostensoir is uncommon French at frequency #96,206 among 75,470 “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.
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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Using “ostensoir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-S-T-E-N-S-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔs.tɑ̃.swaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.