outback
\awt.bak\
The verdict
“outback” is uncommon French (frequency #68,524 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,524
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrière-pays de l’Australie, généralement semi-aride.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outback · outback · French
outback · rank #68,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,524
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oulémas
Nearest frequency peer: oulémas (-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 « outback »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ophelia
Ophelia
31,481 corpus weight
- oppresse
oppresse
31,480 corpus weight
- oulémas
oulémas
31,478 corpus weight
- outback
outback
31,477 corpus weight
- ove
ove
31,476 corpus weight
- Paley
Paley
31,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outback » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outback |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \awt.bak\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outback » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outback is uncommon French at frequency #68,524 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \awt.bak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arrière-pays de l’Australie, généralement semi-aride.".
No misspelling variants are generated for outback in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is outback, spelled O-U-T-B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Arrière-pays de l’Australie, généralement semi-aride.
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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