ouïghour
\u.i.ɡuʁ\
The verdict
“ouïghour” is uncommon French (frequency #89,994 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,994
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la langue nommée ouïghour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouighour · ouïghour · French
ouïghour · rank #89,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvrer
Nearest frequency peer: ouvrer (-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 « ouïghour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orpailleurs
orpailleurs
10,013 corpus weight
- ouvrer
ouvrer
10,008 corpus weight
- ouïghour
ouïghour
10,007 corpus weight
- oxycodone
oxycodone
10,006 corpus weight
- oxydatif
oxydatif
10,005 corpus weight
- palmeraies
palmeraies
10,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouïghour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouïghour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.i.ɡuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouïghour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouïghour is uncommon French at frequency #89,994 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \u.i.ɡuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ouïghour in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ouïghour, spelled O-U-Ï-G-H-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la langue nommée ouïghour.
- 2Qui concerne le peuple des Ouïghours.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouïghour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de la moitié de la cité traditionnelle ouïghoure — la minorité turcophone musulmane de la province — a déjà été rasée.
Aujourd’hui, il est impossible d’ignorer le génocide de la minorité musulmane ouïghour par le gouvernement chinois.
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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