Oviedo
The verdict
“Oviedo” is uncommon French (frequency #56,156 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,156
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province et Communauté autonome des Asturies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oviedo · Oviedo · French
Oviedo · rank #56,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,156
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Osasuna
Nearest frequency peer: Osasuna (-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 « Oviedo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ornithologi…
ornithologique
43,848 corpus weight
- Orvault
Orvault
43,847 corpus weight
- Osasuna
Osasuna
43,846 corpus weight
- Oviedo
Oviedo
43,845 corpus weight
- ovoïde
ovoïde
43,844 corpus weight
- padawan
padawan
43,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oviedo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oviedo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oviedo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oviedo is uncommon French at frequency #56,156 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province et Communauté autonome des Asturies.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Oviedo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Oviedo, spelled O-V-I-E-D-O.
Definition
- 1Commune d’Espagne, située dans la province et Communauté autonome des Asturies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Oviedo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est aussi à Oviedo que commence le Camino Primitivo, le chemin historique de Saint-Jacques dont l’histoire remonte au roi Alphonse II (760-842), dit « Alphonse le Chaste ».
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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