oversize
\əʊ.və(ɹ).saɪz\
The verdict
“oversize” is uncommon French (frequency #82,309 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,309
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Surdimensionné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oversize · oversize · French
oversize · rank #82,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,309
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH pacem
Nearest frequency peer: pacem (+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 « oversize »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oscillait
oscillait
17,695 corpus weight
- outro
outro
17,694 corpus weight
- oversize
oversize
17,692 corpus weight
- pacem
pacem
17,691 corpus weight
- pagnes
pagnes
17,690 corpus weight
- Pantani
Pantani
17,689 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oversize » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oversize |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \əʊ.və(ɹ).saɪz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oversize » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oversize is uncommon French at frequency #82,309 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \əʊ.və(ɹ).saɪz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Surdimensionné.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oversize in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oversize, spelled O-V-E-R-S-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Surdimensionné.
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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