ôta
\o.ta\
The verdict
“ôta” is uncommon French (frequency #74,504), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,504
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ôter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ota · ôta · French
ôta · rank #74,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,504
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ô" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH évincée
Nearest frequency peer: évincée (-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 « ôta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- énergétique…
énergétiquement
25,502 corpus weight
- Épire
Épire
25,501 corpus weight
- éprouvettes
éprouvettes
25,500 corpus weight
- Étrurie
Étrurie
25,499 corpus weight
- évincée
évincée
25,498 corpus weight
- ôta
ôta
25,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ôta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ôta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ta\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ôta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ôta is uncommon French at frequency #74,504, classed as averb, transcribed \o.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ôter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ôta, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ôta, spelled Ô-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ôter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ôta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Camille s’installa plus à l’ombre, ôta sa veste et s’absorba deux bonnes heures dans l’examen attentif des Meule à eau avec disque de mortifiage, Pompe vide-cave turbine double-isolement et autres astuces réconfortantes autant qu’édifiantes.
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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