Oumou
The verdict
“Oumou” is uncommon French (frequency #97,240 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,240
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oumou · Oumou · French
Oumou · rank #97,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oudot
Nearest frequency peer: oudot (-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 « Oumou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Oswaldo
Oswaldo
2,764 corpus weight
- Othe
Othe
2,763 corpus weight
- oudot
oudot
2,762 corpus weight
- Oumou
Oumou
2,761 corpus weight
- outragée
outragée
2,760 corpus weight
- Pachtounes
Pachtounes
2,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oumou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oumou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oumou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oumou is uncommon French at frequency #97,240 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Oumou, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Oumou, spelled O-U-M-O-U.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Oumou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oumou Sangaré naît à Bamako le 2 février 1968. Dès l'âge de cinq ans, elle commence à aguerrir sa voix à l'école maternelle, avec des mélodies de la tradition du Wassoulou, la région des siens, située au sud du Mali, à 120 km de la capitale.
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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