otton
\ɔ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“otton” is uncommon French (frequency #55,487 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,487
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grain qui reste attaché, lors du battage, aux glumes, voire à l’épillet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-otton · otton · French
otton · rank #55,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,487
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orthographiqu…
Nearest frequency peer: orthographiques (-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 « otton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opératrice
opératrice
44,517 corpus weight
- origan
origan
44,516 corpus weight
- orthographi…
orthographiques
44,515 corpus weight
- otton
otton
44,514 corpus weight
- Ouimet
Ouimet
44,513 corpus weight
- oursons
oursons
44,512 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « otton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | otton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « otton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
otton is uncommon French at frequency #55,487 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grain qui reste attaché, lors du battage, aux glumes, voire à l’épillet.".
otton doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 otton, spelled O-T-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grain qui reste attaché, lors du battage, aux glumes, voire à l’épillet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how otton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; car le grain coupé avant cette époque devient retrait , se bat mal , fait beaucoup de ottons , n'est pas de garde et ne peut servir en semence ; outre cela, la paille revient dans le tas et prend un goût de chanci.
Jusqu'ici les ottons, pilons, grosses têtes, épis cassés et non battus, etc., tombaient à terre, mélangés avec une certaine proportion de grain, et à la fin de la journée on était obligé de repasser tous ces débris dans le batteur ou sur les secoueurs, pour en obtenir la séparation et le nettoyage.
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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