ouste
\ust\
The verdict
“ouste” is uncommon French (frequency #75,065 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,065
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employée pour faire partir, pour chasser quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouste · ouste · French
ouste · rank #75,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,065
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Otrante
Nearest frequency peer: Otrante (-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 « ouste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- osmotique
osmotique
24,938 corpus weight
- Otrante
Otrante
24,937 corpus weight
- ouste
ouste
24,936 corpus weight
- overdoses
overdoses
24,935 corpus weight
- pacifiée
pacifiée
24,934 corpus weight
- paillon
paillon
24,933 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ust\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouste is uncommon French at frequency #75,065 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ust\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ouste, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ouste, spelled O-U-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Employée pour faire partir, pour chasser quelqu’un.
- 2Utilisée pour accélérer le mouvement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malivieri, tu peux rentrer chez toi. Allez ouste ! Rentre dans ta province !
– Allez, ouste, on vous appellera quand on aura besoin de vous ! avait-elle grogné.
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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