otaries
\ɔ.ta.ʁi\
The verdict
“otaries” is uncommon French (frequency #51,642 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,642
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de otarie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otaries · otaries · French
otaries · rank #51,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,642
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ostracisme
Nearest frequency peer: ostracisme (-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 « otaries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- originelles
originelles
48,362 corpus weight
- oseraient
oseraient
48,361 corpus weight
- ostracisme
ostracisme
48,360 corpus weight
- otaries
otaries
48,359 corpus weight
- ottomanes
ottomanes
48,358 corpus weight
- pampa
pampa
48,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « otaries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | otaries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ta.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « otaries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
otaries is uncommon French at frequency #51,642 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ta.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de otarie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for otaries in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 otaries, spelled O-T-A-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de otarie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how otaries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On note chez ces pinnipèdes la présence de pavillons auditifs ou « oreilles » externes et coniques, qui peuvent atteindre 50 mm chez les otaries à fourrure.
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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