ovin
\ɔ.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“ovin” is uncommon French (frequency #65,378 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,378
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les moutons ou les autres ovins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovin · ovin · French
ovin · rank #65,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,378
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH outrances
Nearest frequency peer: outrances (-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 « ovin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- osés
osés
34,626 corpus weight
- ouche
ouche
34,625 corpus weight
- outrances
outrances
34,624 corpus weight
- ovin
ovin
34,623 corpus weight
- palau
palau
34,621 corpus weight
- palets
palets
34,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ovin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ovin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ovin is uncommon French at frequency #65,378 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.vɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne les moutons ou les autres ovins.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ovin in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ovin, spelled O-V-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les moutons ou les autres ovins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ovin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un éleveur du centre de la France, M. Malingié , désirait créer une race ovine qui pût , par la qualité de sa chair et de sa laine, rémunérer son élevage, tout en conservant le sang des races locales.
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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