overtime
\ˈəʊ.və.taɪm\
The verdict
“overtime” is uncommon French (frequency #95,136 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,136
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heures supplémentaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-overtime · overtime · French
overtime · rank #95,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,136
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outarde
Nearest frequency peer: outarde (-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 « overtime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ornon
ornon
4,868 corpus weight
- orthogonaux
orthogonaux
4,867 corpus weight
- outarde
outarde
4,866 corpus weight
- overtime
overtime
4,865 corpus weight
- palus
palus
4,864 corpus weight
- pancetta
pancetta
4,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « overtime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overtime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈəʊ.və.taɪm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « overtime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
overtime is uncommon French at frequency #95,136 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈəʊ.və.taɪm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for overtime, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is overtime, spelled O-V-E-R-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Heures supplémentaires.
- 2Prolongation.
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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