Oswald
\ɔs.vald\
The verdict
“Oswald” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,359
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oswald · Oswald · French
Oswald · rank #19,359 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,359
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornement
Nearest frequency peer: ornement (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Oswald »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Olympia
Olympia
80,645 corpus weight
- ordonnée
ordonnée
80,644 corpus weight
- ornement
ornement
80,643 corpus weight
- Oswald
Oswald
80,642 corpus weight
- ouaip
ouaip
80,641 corpus weight
- oubliées
oubliées
80,640 corpus weight
What this shows « Oswald » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oswald |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔs.vald\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Oswald »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Oswald (IPA \ɔs.vald\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,359 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Oswald, with forms such as "osawld", "osswald", and "oswadl". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Oswald, spelled O-S-W-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osawld
- osswald
- oswadl
- oswaldd
- oswalld
- oswlad
- oswwald
- owsald
- sowald
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Oswald - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).