Oyé
\o.je\
The verdict
“Oyé” is uncommon French (frequency #74,258 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,258
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oye · Oyé · French
Oyé · rank #74,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,258
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouïes
Nearest frequency peer: ouïes (-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 « Oyé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- outrepasse
outrepasse
25,747 corpus weight
- Ouvrard
Ouvrard
25,746 corpus weight
- ouvrirons
ouvrirons
25,745 corpus weight
- ouïes
ouïes
25,744 corpus weight
- Oyé
Oyé
25,743 corpus weight
- ozu
ozu
25,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Oyé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Oyé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.je\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Oyé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Oyé is uncommon French at frequency #74,258 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Oyé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Oyé, spelled O-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
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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