Oury
\u.ʁi\
The verdict
“Oury” is uncommon French (frequency #62,501 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,501
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oury · Oury · French
Oury · rank #62,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,501
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ourdi
Nearest frequency peer: ourdi (-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 « Oury »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- osées
osées
37,503 corpus weight
- Oullins
Oullins
37,502 corpus weight
- ourdi
ourdi
37,501 corpus weight
- Oury
Oury
37,500 corpus weight
- outrancière
outrancière
37,499 corpus weight
- palliatif
palliatif
37,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oury » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oury |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \u.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oury » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oury is uncommon French at frequency #62,501 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \u.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Oury in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Oury, spelled O-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
- 2Département de la province de Balé de la région de la Boucle du Mouhoun au Burkina Faso.
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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