Ouija
\wi.ʒa\
The verdict
“Ouija” is uncommon French (frequency #71,761 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,761
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de planchette qui permet de communiquer avec les esprits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouija · Ouija · French
Ouija · rank #71,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,761
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ouarzazate
Nearest frequency peer: Ouarzazate (-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 « Ouija »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oraisons
oraisons
28,245 corpus weight
- orthopédiste
orthopédiste
28,243 corpus weight
- Ouarzazate
Ouarzazate
28,241 corpus weight
- Ouija
Ouija
28,240 corpus weight
- ouïgours
ouïgours
28,239 corpus weight
- ovoïdes
ovoïdes
28,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ouija » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ouija |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wi.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ouija » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ouija is uncommon French at frequency #71,761 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wi.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de planchette qui permet de communiquer avec les esprits.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ouija, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Ouija, spelled O-U-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1Sorte de planchette qui permet de communiquer avec les esprits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ouija appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près de 30 jeunes filles ont été hospitalisées après s’être amusées au jeu Ouija dans leur école en Colombie.
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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