Otomo
The verdict
“Otomo” is uncommon French (frequency #99,452 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,452
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otomo · Otomo · French
Otomo · rank #99,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,452
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH otro
Nearest frequency peer: otro (+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 « Otomo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Orissa
Orissa
552 corpus weight
- Osamu
Osamu
551 corpus weight
- Otomo
Otomo
549 corpus weight
- otro
otro
548 corpus weight
- ouvrées
ouvrées
547 corpus weight
- pachas
pachas
546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Otomo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Otomo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Otomo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Otomo is uncommon French at frequency #99,452 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Otomo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Otomo, spelled O-T-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Otomo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bande-son du film, que l’on doit à Otomo Yoshihide, est un atout magnifique d’une œuvre originale mêlant différents styles visuels pour dérouter un spectateur qui se laisse envoûter par un Japon médiéval fantasmé.
On la doit notamment à l’éditeur Jacques Glénat, lequel, au retour d’un voyage au Japon, a fait paraître « Akira » de Katsuhiro Otomo.
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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