ostentation
\ɔs.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“ostentation” is uncommon French (frequency #56,802 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,802
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affectation de montrer des qualités ou des avantages dont on veut faire parade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ostentation · ostentation · French
ostentation · rank #56,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,802
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ory
Nearest frequency peer: ory (-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 « ostentation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ordonnait
ordonnait
43,203 corpus weight
- ordonnez
ordonnez
43,202 corpus weight
- ory
ory
43,200 corpus weight
- ostentation
ostentation
43,199 corpus weight
- Ouistreham
Ouistreham
43,197 corpus weight
- packet
packet
43,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ostentation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostentation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ostentation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ostentation is uncommon French at frequency #56,802 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔs.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affectation de montrer des qualités ou des avantages dont on veut faire parade.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ostentation, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ostentation, spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Affectation de montrer des qualités ou des avantages dont on veut faire parade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ostentation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre monde n’est formé qu’à l'ostentation : les hommes ne s'enflent que de vent ….
Son ostentation est doublée de générosité. Les résultats profitent à la société, les motifs regardent Dieu.
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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