ouche
\uʃ\
The verdict
“ouche” is uncommon French (frequency #65,376 among 75,470 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,376
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terrain de qualité supérieure habituellement clos, situé près de la maison et cultivé en potager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouche · ouche · French
ouche · rank #65,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,376
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 75,470
- PHOTO-FINISH osés
Nearest frequency peer: osés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ouche”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- organisèrent
organisèrent
34,629 corpus weight
- orphan
orphan
34,628 corpus weight
- osés
osés
34,626 corpus weight
- ouche
ouche
34,625 corpus weight
- outrances
outrances
34,624 corpus weight
- ovin
ovin
34,623 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ouche” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouche” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ouche is uncommon French at frequency #65,376 among 75,470 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \uʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terrain de qualité supérieure habituellement clos, situé près de la maison et cultivé en potager.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ouche, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ouche, spelled O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Terrain de qualité supérieure habituellement clos, situé près de la maison et cultivé en potager.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.