oxymore

\ɔk.si.mɔʁ\

/\ɔk.si.mɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“oxymore” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,081
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
10
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alliance de mots surprenante. Association étroite de deux mots de sens contraires pour renforcer une idée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-oxymore · oxymore · French

oxymore · rank #44,081 · 10 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,081
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH OUA

Nearest frequency peer: OUA (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « oxymore »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « oxymore » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for oxymore
PropertyValue
Headwordoxymore
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔk.si.mɔʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,081
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oxymore »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.oxymorese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « OUA » (#44,080), « palatinat » (#44,082), « othello » (#44,079). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « oxymore » est au #44,081. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around oxymore (IPA \ɔk.si.mɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,081 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for oxymore, with forms such as "oxmyore", "oxxymore", and "oxymmore". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oxymore, spelled O-X-Y-M-O-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alliance de mots surprenante. Association étroite de deux mots de sens contraires pour renforcer une idée.
  2. 2
    Alliance de deux choses incompatibles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how oxymore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des Femen vêtues et silencieuses. L’oxymore étonne pour ces sirènes d'ordinaire hurlantes, activistes aux seins nus, habituées à l'attaque et contraintes ce mercredi matin à leur défense, à la barre du tribunal correctionnel de Paris.
  2. Toujours dans la même ligne d’interprétation, Daniel Delas relève que « l’inverse de l’oxymore est aussi imprédicable que l’expression elle-même : obscure clarté est absurde dans la mesure où la proposition reste impossible dans tout monde représenté par un langage logique ; obscure obscurité et claire clarté ont la même impossibilité ».

This word in other languages

oxymoron(English)oxímoron(Español)Oxymoron(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oxmyore
  • oxxymore
  • oxymmore
  • oxymoer
  • oxymorre
  • oxymroe
  • oxyomre
  • oxyymore
  • oyxmore
  • xoymore

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oxymore - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

oxmyore2oxxymore1oxymmore1oxymoer2oxymorre1oxymroe2oxyomre2oxyymore1
Edit distance from "oxymore"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oxymore"?
"oxymore" is spelled O-X-Y-M-O-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔk.si.mɔʁ\.
What does "oxymore" mean?
As a noun, "oxymore" means: Alliance de mots surprenante. Association étroite de deux mots de sens contraires pour renforcer une idée.
What are common misspellings of "oxymore"?
Common misspellings include "oxmyore", "oxxymore", "oxymmore", "oxymoer", "oxymorre". The correct spelling is "oxymore".
How do you pronounce "oxymore"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oxymore" is \ɔk.si.mɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oxymore" come from?
"oxymore" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oxymore", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

othello#44,079piqueur#44,097planeur#44,099mutuels#44,060

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

osciller10 variantsPierrick10 variantspolluent10 variantsprédis10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list