oxymoron
French, noun/ɔk.si.mɔ.ʁɔ̃/
oxymoron is spelled O-X-Y-M-O-R-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oxymoron is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of oxymore” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Combinaison dans un même groupe syntaxique de deux notions contradictoires”.
What does oxymoron mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of oxymore
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Combinaison dans un même groupe syntaxique de deux notions contradictoires.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of oxymoron
- oxymorons plural
- oxymore
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oxymoron?
- /ɔk.si.mɔ.ʁɔ̃/
- \ɔk.si.mɔ.ʁɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oxymoron
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oxymoron in French?
oxymoron appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).