overlord
\o.vœʁ.lɔʁd\
The verdict
“overlord” is uncommon French (frequency #64,666 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,666
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lord situé au-dessus des autres lords, dans le système féodal anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-overlord · overlord · French
overlord · rank #64,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,666
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH otarie
Nearest frequency peer: otarie (-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 « overlord »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- optionnels
optionnels
35,338 corpus weight
- ornemental
ornemental
35,337 corpus weight
- otarie
otarie
35,336 corpus weight
- overlord
overlord
35,335 corpus weight
- pagus
pagus
35,333 corpus weight
- pakistanais…
pakistanaises
35,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « overlord » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overlord |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.vœʁ.lɔʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « overlord » en français
Rare enough to double-check
overlord is uncommon French at frequency #64,666 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.vœʁ.lɔʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lord situé au-dessus des autres lords, dans le système féodal anglais.".
Zero misspellings are on record for overlord in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is overlord, spelled O-V-E-R-L-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Lord situé au-dessus des autres lords, dans le système féodal anglais.
This word in other languages
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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