ovalie
\o.va.li\
The verdict
“ovalie” is uncommon French (frequency #85,093 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,093
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rugby.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovalie · ovalie · French
ovalie · rank #85,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,093
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oval
Nearest frequency peer: oval (-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 « ovalie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oueds
oueds
14,911 corpus weight
- outta
outta
14,910 corpus weight
- oval
oval
14,909 corpus weight
- ovalie
ovalie
14,908 corpus weight
- Pabst
Pabst
14,907 corpus weight
- pachydermes
pachydermes
14,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ovalie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovalie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.va.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ovalie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ovalie is uncommon French at frequency #85,093 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.va.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ovalie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ovalie, spelled O-V-A-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Rugby.
- 2Milieu du rugby, environnement du rugby.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ovalie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup de joueurs et d’anciens joueurs se font ainsi rétribuer pour intervenir dans les entreprises et louer les « valeurs de l’ovalie».
Jessy Trémoulière, de la ferme familiale au sommet de l’ovalie
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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