ovine
\ɔ.vin\
The verdict
“ovine” is uncommon French (frequency #54,778 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,778
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ovin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovine · ovine · French
ovine · rank #54,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,778
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ovocytes
Nearest frequency peer: ovocytes (+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 « ovine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Osbourne
Osbourne
45,226 corpus weight
- oue
oue
45,225 corpus weight
- ovine
ovine
45,223 corpus weight
- ovocytes
ovocytes
45,222 corpus weight
- pants
pants
45,221 corpus weight
- parements
parements
45,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ovine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.vin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ovine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ovine is uncommon French at frequency #54,778 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de ovin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ovine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ovine, spelled O-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ovin.
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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