ouvrais
\u.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“ouvrais” is uncommon French (frequency #60,253 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,253
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe ouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvrais · ouvrais · French
ouvrais · rank #60,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,253
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvrable
Nearest frequency peer: ouvrable (-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 « ouvrais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- paierez
paierez
39,745 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouvrais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouvrais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouvrais is uncommon French at frequency #60,253 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \u.vʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ouvrais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ouvrais, spelled O-U-V-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe ouvrir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe ouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ouvrais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une librairie, elle feuilleta une monographie d’Andrew Wyeth tandis que j’ouvrais les romans policiers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).