Othe

name

The verdict

“Othe” is uncommon French (frequency #97,238 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#97,238
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-othe · Othe · French

Othe · rank #97,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #97,238
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH Oswaldo

Nearest frequency peer: Oswaldo (-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 « Othe »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Othe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Othe
PropertyValue
HeadwordOthe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#97,238
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Othe » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Othetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Oswaldo » (#97,237), « oudot » (#97,239), « ORF » (#97,236). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « Othe » est au #97,238. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Othe is uncommon French at frequency #97,238 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Othe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Othe, spelled O-T-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
  2. 2
    Vaste région forestière qui se répartit sur une partie des départements français de l'Yonne et de l'Aube.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Othe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La bizarrerie administrative dont elle est victime, Othe s'en accommode depuis fort longtemps. Pensez donc ! Depuis 1790 (création des départements) qu'elle vit avec son statut d'enclave meurthe-et-mosellane en territoire meusien, elle s’est fait une raison. Elle a beau n'être pas plus grosse qu'une tête d’épingle sur la carte, la commune de 35 habitants,…
  2. Dilo, Dei locus, tel est le nom donné, vers 1152 ou 1156, par de pieux religieux de l'ordre de Premontré, à l'une des vastes solitudes de la forêt d’Othe.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Othe"?
"Othe" is spelled O-T-H-E.
What does "Othe" mean?
As a proper noun, "Othe" means: Commune française du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle.
What language does "Othe" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Othe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list