own
\oʊn\
The verdict
“own” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,632) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,632
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre, qui appartient à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-own · own · French
own · rank #23,632 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,632
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orpheline
Nearest frequency peer: orpheline (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « own »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- oméga
oméga
76,372 corpus weight
- opéras
opéras
76,371 corpus weight
- orpheline
orpheline
76,370 corpus weight
- own
own
76,369 corpus weight
- papas
papas
76,368 corpus weight
- parié
parié
76,367 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « own » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | own |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \oʊn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « own »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for own is neighbouring look-alikes ("ox", "oy", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \oʊn\. Frequency #23,632 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Propre, qui appartient à.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for own, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ox", "oy", "O", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is own, spelled O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Propre, qui appartient à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how own appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is my own house.
It’s my own.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).