Ottignies
\ɔ.ti.ɲiː\
The verdict
“Ottignies” is uncommon French (frequency #74,253 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,253
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Section de la commune de Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ottignies · Ottignies · French
Ottignies · rank #74,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,253
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outrepasse
Nearest frequency peer: outrepasse (+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 « Ottignies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- organiseront
organiseront
25,752 corpus weight
- originalités
originalités
25,751 corpus weight
- Ottignies
Ottignies
25,748 corpus weight
- outrepasse
outrepasse
25,747 corpus weight
- Ouvrard
Ouvrard
25,746 corpus weight
- ouvrirons
ouvrirons
25,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ottignies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ottignies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ti.ɲiː\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ottignies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ottignies is uncommon French at frequency #74,253 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔ.ti.ɲiː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Section de la commune de Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve en Belgique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ottignies, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ottignies, spelled O-T-T-I-G-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Section de la commune de Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve en Belgique.
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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