oue
\u\
The verdict
“oue” is uncommon French (frequency #54,776 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,776
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oue · oue · French
oue · rank #54,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,776
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Osbourne
Nearest frequency peer: Osbourne (-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 « oue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orientaliste
orientaliste
45,228 corpus weight
- originels
originels
45,227 corpus weight
- Osbourne
Osbourne
45,226 corpus weight
- oue
oue
45,225 corpus weight
- ovine
ovine
45,223 corpus weight
- ovocytes
ovocytes
45,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oue is uncommon French at frequency #54,776 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oue in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 oue, spelled O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Oie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le proverbe est bon, selon moi, Que qui l’oue a mangé du roi, Cent ans après en rend les plumes.
This word in other languages
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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