ouille
\uj\
The verdict
“ouille” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,945
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection exprimant la douleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouille · ouille · French
ouille · rank #41,945 · 5 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,945
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ormes
Nearest frequency peer: ormes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ouille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opposable
opposable
58,059 corpus weight
- optant
optant
58,058 corpus weight
- ormes
ormes
58,057 corpus weight
- ouille
ouille
58,056 corpus weight
- ouvraient
ouvraient
58,055 corpus weight
- Ouïghours
Ouïghours
58,054 corpus weight
What this shows « ouille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | ouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \uj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ouille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around ouille (IPA \uj\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #41,945 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Interjection exprimant la douleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for ouille, with forms such as "oiulle", "ouile", and "ouilel". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "ouïe", "Odile", "oublie", 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 ouille, spelled O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Interjection exprimant la douleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ouille, je me suis fait mal !
− Non, madame, les grandes douleurs sont muettes. − Eh bien moi quand je me brûle je ne suis pas muette, j'en pousse des « ouille !! »
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oiulle
- ouile
- ouilel
- oulile
- uoille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ouille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ouille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).