outaouais
\u.ta.wɛ\
The verdict
“outaouais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,089. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,089
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’Outaouais, région du Québec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outaouais · outaouais · French
outaouais · rank #19,089 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,089
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outillage
Nearest frequency peer: outillage (+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 « outaouais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- olympe
olympe
80,916 corpus weight
- orateur
orateur
80,915 corpus weight
- orteil
orteil
80,914 corpus weight
- outaouais
outaouais
80,912 corpus weight
- outillage
outillage
80,911 corpus weight
- Pamela
Pamela
80,910 corpus weight
What this shows « outaouais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outaouais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.ta.wɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « outaouais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around outaouais (IPA \u.ta.wɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,089 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for outaouais, with forms such as "otuaouais", "ouatouais", and "outaoauis". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is outaouais, spelled O-U-T-A-O-U-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’Outaouais, région du Québec.
- 2Qui concerne la langue outaouaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outaouais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’équipe outaouaise se trouve à être la deuxième à avoir produit le plus de points et la première pour en avoir concédés le moins lors des qualifications.
Coup de chance, ils tombent sur le frère de Louis Jolliet, Adrien, qui revient du pays des Outaouais. Il leur parle d’une nation indigène non encore évangélisée, les Potéouatamis. Dollier [de Casson] et [Bréhant de] Galinée voient là un champ d’apostolat vierge. Ils pourront ainsi atteindre la région de la rivière Ohio par les Grands Lacs, un chemin plus…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otuaouais
- ouatouais
- outaoauis
- outaouaiss
- outaouasi
- outaouias
- outauoais
- outoauais
- outtaouais
- uotaouais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of outaouais - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).