ôtent
\ot\
The verdict
“ôtent” is uncommon French (frequency #96,546), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,546
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ôter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otent · ôtent · French
ôtent · rank #96,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,546
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ô" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH évènementiel
Nearest frequency peer: évènementiel (-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 « ôtent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- étagées
étagées
3,461 corpus weight
- étiologique
étiologique
3,458 corpus weight
- étoffés
étoffés
3,457 corpus weight
- évènementiel
évènementiel
3,456 corpus weight
- ôtent
ôtent
3,455 corpus weight
- œsophagien
œsophagien
3,454 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ôtent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ôtent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ot\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ôtent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ôtent is uncommon French at frequency #96,546, classed as averb, transcribed \ot\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ôtent has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ôtent, spelled Ô-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ôter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ôter.
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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