OUA
\o.y.a\
The verdict
“OUA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,080) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,080
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation de l'unité africaine : organisation inter-étatique, ayant précédé l’Union africaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oua · OUA · French
OUA · rank #44,080 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,080
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH othello
Nearest frequency peer: othello (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « OUA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- orb
orb
55,924 corpus weight
- osciller
osciller
55,923 corpus weight
- othello
othello
55,922 corpus weight
- OUA
OUA
55,921 corpus weight
- oxymore
oxymore
55,920 corpus weight
- palatinat
palatinat
55,919 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OUA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OUA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.y.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OUA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OUA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ow", "ox", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.y.a\. Frequency #44,080 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Organisation de l'unité africaine : organisation inter-étatique, ayant précédé l’Union africaine.".
Zero misspellings are on record for OUA in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ow", "ox", "oy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is OUA, spelled O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Organisation de l'unité africaine : organisation inter-étatique, ayant précédé l’Union africaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OUA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abdou Diouf, Chef de l’État sénégalais, Président en exercice de l’OUA, procèdera à l’ouverture solennelle du pré-festival.
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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