ovarien
\ɔ.va.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“ovarien” is uncommon French (frequency #96,210 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,210
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux ovaires des mammifères ou à l’ovaire des plantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovarien · ovarien · French
ovarien · rank #96,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,210
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oxalate
Nearest frequency peer: oxalate (+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 « ovarien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ostensoir
ostensoir
3,795 corpus weight
- Oulipo
Oulipo
3,794 corpus weight
- Ouranos
Ouranos
3,793 corpus weight
- ovarien
ovarien
3,791 corpus weight
- oxalate
oxalate
3,790 corpus weight
- Ozawa
Ozawa
3,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ovarien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovarien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.va.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ovarien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ovarien is uncommon French at frequency #96,210 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.va.ʁjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ovarien in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ovarien, spelled O-V-A-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux ovaires des mammifères ou à l’ovaire des plantes.
- 2Féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ovarien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La suppression de la fonction ovarienne entraîne souvent une poussée d’obésité à laquelle s'associe l’empâtement des formes, du masculinisme avec hypertrichose, rappelant dans une certaine mesure le masculinisme cortico-surrénal.
La fausse puberté précoce isosexuelle est secondaire à une sécrétion œstrogénique anormale par une tumeur de l’ovaire ou des surrénales sans maturation ovarienne.
Synonyms
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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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