oursons
\uʁ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“oursons” is uncommon French (frequency #55,489 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,489
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ourson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oursons · oursons · French
oursons · rank #55,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,489
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ouimet
Nearest frequency peer: Ouimet (-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 « oursons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orthographi…
orthographiques
44,515 corpus weight
- otton
otton
44,514 corpus weight
- Ouimet
Ouimet
44,513 corpus weight
- oursons
oursons
44,512 corpus weight
- parlerez
parlerez
44,511 corpus weight
- parnasse
parnasse
44,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oursons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oursons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʁ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oursons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oursons is uncommon French at frequency #55,489 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \uʁ.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ourson.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for oursons, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 oursons, spelled O-U-R-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ourson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oursons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me demande où se trouve sa tanière et si nous avons affaire à un spécimen solitaire ou s’il y a une madame ours et des oursons.
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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