ouïes
\wi\
The verdict
“ouïes” is uncommon French (frequency #74,257 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,257
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ouïe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouies · ouïes · French
ouïes · rank #74,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,257
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvrirons
Nearest frequency peer: ouvrirons (-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 « ouïes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- outrepasse
outrepasse
25,747 corpus weight
- Ouvrard
Ouvrard
25,746 corpus weight
- ouvrirons
ouvrirons
25,745 corpus weight
- ouïes
ouïes
25,744 corpus weight
- Oyé
Oyé
25,743 corpus weight
- ozu
ozu
25,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouïes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouïes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouïes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouïes is uncommon French at frequency #74,257 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ouïe.".
ouïes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ouïes, spelled O-U-Ï-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ouïe.
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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