osti
\ɔs.ti\
The verdict
“osti” is uncommon French (frequency #59,506 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,506
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de ostie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osti · osti · French
osti · rank #59,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,506
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornant
Nearest frequency peer: ornant (-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 « osti »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orbes
orbes
40,499 corpus weight
- orc
orc
40,498 corpus weight
- orgueilleuse
orgueilleuse
40,497 corpus weight
- ornant
ornant
40,496 corpus weight
- osti
osti
40,495 corpus weight
- oursin
oursin
40,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « osti » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osti |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ɔs.ti\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « osti » en français
Rare enough to double-check
osti is uncommon French at frequency #59,506 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ɔs.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de ostie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for osti, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is osti, spelled O-S-T-I.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de ostie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how osti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En réaction aux dires de Daniel Paré, l’animateur Paul Arcand n’a pas mâché ses mots : « les inspections, c’est de l’osti de bullshit ».
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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