ouvris
\u.vʁi\
The verdict
“ouvris” is uncommon French (frequency #73,413 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,413
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de ouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvris · ouvris · French
ouvris · rank #73,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,413
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ouargla
Nearest frequency peer: Ouargla (-2 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 « ouvris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orthogonal
orthogonal
26,593 corpus weight
- Orénoque
Orénoque
26,592 corpus weight
- Ouargla
Ouargla
26,590 corpus weight
- ouvris
ouvris
26,588 corpus weight
- pala
pala
26,585 corpus weight
- pancrace
pancrace
26,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ouvris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ouvris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ouvris is uncommon French at frequency #73,413 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \u.vʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ouvris in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ouvris, spelled O-U-V-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de ouvrir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de ouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ouvris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ouvris discrètement le guichet de ma porte et je fis passer, par l’orifice, une glace de poche pivotant au bout de mes doigts.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).