oxide
\ɔk.sid\
The verdict
“oxide” is uncommon French (frequency #98,329 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,329
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe ancienne de oxyde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oxide · oxide · French
oxide · rank #98,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,329
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH owned
Nearest frequency peer: owned (-2 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 « oxide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ouvragée
ouvragée
1,675 corpus weight
- owned
owned
1,674 corpus weight
- oxide
oxide
1,672 corpus weight
- oxo
oxo
1,670 corpus weight
- oxydée
oxydée
1,669 corpus weight
- palis
palis
1,667 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oxide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oxide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔk.sid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oxide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oxide is uncommon French at frequency #98,329 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔk.sid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orthographe ancienne de oxyde.".
oxide has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oxide, spelled O-X-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Orthographe ancienne de oxyde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oxide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'un et l'autre sont des combinaisons de l'acide muriatique concentré avec l’oxide d'arsenic.
Ce calcaire offre des pores tubulés, nombreux , souvent enduits d’oxide de fer.
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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