ove
\ɔv\
The verdict
“ove” is uncommon French (frequency #68,525 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,525
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moulure ronde faite d’un quart de cercle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ove · ove · French
ove · rank #68,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,525
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outback
Nearest frequency peer: outback (-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 « ove »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oppresse
oppresse
31,480 corpus weight
- oulémas
oulémas
31,478 corpus weight
- outback
outback
31,477 corpus weight
- ove
ove
31,476 corpus weight
- Paley
Paley
31,474 corpus weight
- palu
palu
31,472 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ove » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ove |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔv\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #68,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ove » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ove is uncommon French at frequency #68,525 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ove, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ove, spelled O-V-E.
Definition
- 1Moulure ronde faite d’un quart de cercle.
- 2Ornement en forme d’œuf.
- 3Clothoïde de raccordement de deux arcs de cercle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu’on s’occupait de la construction de cette route, on mit à découvert des fragmens considérables appartenant à cette partie de l’édifice que nous décrivons ; plusieurs tambours, des bases et des chapiteaux de colonnes ; quatre frises avec leurs triglyphes, et dont les métopes étaient décorées de bucranes et de disques ; l’une offrait la tête de la Go…
— Sylvie, il nous propose des oves dans la corniche du corridor ? — Vous appelez cela des oves ? — Oui, mademoiselle. — Et pourquoi ? quel singulier nom ! je n’en ai jamais entendu parler. — Mais vous en avez vu ! — Oui. — Savez-vous le latin ? — Non. — Hé ! bien, cela veut dire œufs, les oves sont des œufs. — Comme vous êtes drôles, vous autres architect…
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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