otarie
\ɔ.ta.ʁi\
The verdict
“otarie” is uncommon French (frequency #64,665 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,665
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de différentes espèces de mammifères marins appartenant à la famille des otariidés, dont les espèces les plus connues sont l'otarie de Californie, l’otarie d'eau douce ou l’otarie ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-otarie · otarie · French
otarie · rank #64,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornemental
Nearest frequency peer: ornemental (-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 « otarie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- OMM
OMM
35,340 corpus weight
- optionnels
optionnels
35,338 corpus weight
- ornemental
ornemental
35,337 corpus weight
- otarie
otarie
35,336 corpus weight
- overlord
overlord
35,335 corpus weight
- pagus
pagus
35,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « otarie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | otarie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ta.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « otarie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
otarie is uncommon French at frequency #64,665 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ta.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire de différentes espèces de mammifères marins appartenant à la famille des otariidés, dont les espèces les plus connues sont l'otarie de Californie, l’otarie d'eau douce ou l’otarie ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for otarie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is otarie, spelled O-T-A-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de différentes espèces de mammifères marins appartenant à la famille des otariidés, dont les espèces les plus connues sont l'otarie de Californie, l’otarie d'eau douce ou l’otarie de Pabion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how otarie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La marée n’échoue plus sur ces sables l’otarie moustachue, aux oreilles enroulées, aux mâchelières pointues, se traînant sur ses pattes sans ongles.
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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