oui
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#132
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oui is anFrenchadv. It means: Mot utilisé pour apporter une réponse affirmative ou marquer l'accord sur une proposition. Il s’emploie aussi au début d’une phrase qui ne répond pas à une question exprimée ou au cours d’une phras... Pronounced \wi\. It ranks #132 in French word frequency. Often confused with ow and ox.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \wi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oui is 3 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wi\. Corpus data places it at rank #132 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oui in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is oui, spelled O-U-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mot utilisé pour apporter une réponse affirmative ou marquer l'accord sur une proposition. Il s’emploie aussi au début d’une phrase qui ne répond pas à une question exprimée ou au cours d’une phrase, pour marquer ou accentuer le caractère affirmatif de cette phrase. Il s’emploie dans le discours direct en réponse à une interrogation. Il est alors seul ou joint à des adverbes qui renforcent l’affirmation comme certes, vraiment, etc.
- 2Comme marqueur de question-tag pour signifier l'agacement ou l'impatience.
- 3Pour indiquer que l'on écoute ou que l'on comprend ce qui est dit, sans forcément l'approuver.
- 4Question courte signifiant "Que désirez-vous ?".
- 5C’est vrai. C’est ça.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #132 in French
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