ouvrable
\u.vʁabl\
The verdict
“ouvrable” is uncommon French (frequency #60,252 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,252
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surtout utilisé dans l’expression « jour ouvrable ») Qui n’est pas férié, qui n’est pas légalement chômé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvrable · ouvrable · French
ouvrable · rank #60,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,252
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH output
Nearest frequency peer: output (-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 « ouvrable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opprimées
opprimées
39,752 corpus weight
- optical
optical
39,751 corpus weight
- output
output
39,750 corpus weight
- ouvrable
ouvrable
39,749 corpus weight
- ouvrais
ouvrais
39,748 corpus weight
- Paddington
Paddington
39,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouvrable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \u.vʁabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouvrable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouvrable is uncommon French at frequency #60,252 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \u.vʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvrable in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ouvrable, spelled O-U-V-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Surtout utilisé dans l’expression « jour ouvrable ») Qui n’est pas férié, qui n’est pas légalement chômé.
- 2Se dit d'un matériau apte à être ouvré, c'est-à-dire travaillé, façonné, mis en œuvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouvrable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au jour de feste, ou jour ouvrable Suans à l’œuvre ou reposez Nous serons tousjours disposez A chanter ton nom venerable.
Vous serez de la plus grande assiduité aux offices de la paroisse, jours de fêtes et jours ouvrables.
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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