ostéopathe
\ɔs.te.ɔ.pat\
The verdict
“ostéopathe” is uncommon French (frequency #51,014 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,014
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Praticien spécialisé en ostéopathie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osteopathe · ostéopathe · French
ostéopathe · rank #51,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,014
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ossétie
Nearest frequency peer: Ossétie (-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 « ostéopathe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orcs
orcs
48,990 corpus weight
- organisatri…
organisatrices
48,989 corpus weight
- Ossétie
Ossétie
48,988 corpus weight
- ostéopathe
ostéopathe
48,987 corpus weight
- ostéoporose
ostéoporose
48,986 corpus weight
- outdoor
outdoor
48,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ostéopathe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ostéopathe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.te.ɔ.pat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ostéopathe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ostéopathe is uncommon French at frequency #51,014 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔs.te.ɔ.pat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Praticien spécialisé en ostéopathie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ostéopathe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ostéopathe, spelled O-S-T-É-O-P-A-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Praticien spécialisé en ostéopathie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ostéopathe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous prenez rendez-vous chez un ostéopathe, vous risquez d’être confronté à des expériences extrêmement variables.
Réunis par « notre vision commune, qui est une exigence éthique forte autour de l’animal », ces professionnels (installés à Clermont, Thiers, Châtel-Guyon, le Livradois-Forez) ont posé la première pierre d’un réseau destiné à accueillir aussi des vétérinaires, éleveurs, ostéopathes, toiletteuses…
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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