oued
\wɛd\
The verdict
“oued” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,022) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,022
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cours d’eau d'Afrique du Nord et des régions semi-désertiques, à régime hydrologique très irrégulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oued · oued · French
oued · rank #22,022 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,022
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH paperasse
Nearest frequency peer: paperasse (+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 “oued”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ogre
ogre
77,982 corpus weight
- oligarchie
oligarchie
77,981 corpus weight
- oued
oued
77,979 corpus weight
- paperasse
paperasse
77,978 corpus weight
- pastel
pastel
77,977 corpus weight
- payantes
payantes
77,976 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oued” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | oued |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “oued” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oued is neighbouring look-alikes ("oui", "out", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \wɛd\. Frequency #22,022 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Cours d’eau d'Afrique du Nord et des régions semi-désertiques, à régime hydrologique très irrégulier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for oued, with forms such as "oeud", "oude", and "ouedd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oui", "out", "ouf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 oued, spelled O-U-E-D.
Definition
- 1Cours d’eau d'Afrique du Nord et des régions semi-désertiques, à régime hydrologique très irrégulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oued appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’oued En-Nedja coule à nos pieds dans un ravin verdoyant et se perd dans un paysage rocheux au Sud-Ouest.
Hélas! il m’arriva - Dieu m’ait en sa merci!- Des fois où le simoun ridait ma langue anhydre, De boire en des oueds, avec un noir souci, Bestions et têtards, et de la bourbe aussi…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oeud
- oude
- ouedd
- uoed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oued - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "oued" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "oui". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #22,022 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "O" letter cohort. O–Z browse
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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.