ouaf
\waf\
The verdict
“ouaf” is uncommon French (frequency #88,968 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,968
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imite un aboiement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouaf · ouaf · French
ouaf · rank #88,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,968
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH otter
Nearest frequency peer: otter (-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 « ouaf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orthogonales
orthogonales
11,036 corpus weight
- orthoptères
orthoptères
11,035 corpus weight
- otter
otter
11,034 corpus weight
- ouaf
ouaf
11,033 corpus weight
- outardes
outardes
11,031 corpus weight
- Ouzbeks
Ouzbeks
11,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouaf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouaf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \waf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouaf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouaf is uncommon French at frequency #88,968 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \waf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imite un aboiement.".
ouaf has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ouaf, spelled O-U-A-F.
Definition
- 1Imite un aboiement.
Synonyms
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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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