Ozawa
\o.za.wa\
The verdict
“Ozawa” is uncommon French (frequency #96,212 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,212
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille japonais, 小沢 ou 小澤.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ozawa · Ozawa · French
Ozawa · rank #96,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,212
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oxalate
Nearest frequency peer: oxalate (-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 « Ozawa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ouranos
Ouranos
3,793 corpus weight
- ovarien
ovarien
3,791 corpus weight
- oxalate
oxalate
3,790 corpus weight
- Ozawa
Ozawa
3,789 corpus weight
- pads
pads
3,786 corpus weight
- panachage
panachage
3,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ozawa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ozawa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.za.wa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ozawa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ozawa is uncommon French at frequency #96,212 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.za.wa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille japonais, 小沢 ou 小澤.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ozawa, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Ozawa, spelled O-Z-A-W-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille japonais, 小沢 ou 小澤.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ozawa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le procès de l’ex-président du Parti démocrate du Japon, Ichiro Ozawa, accusé d’avoir dissimulé au fisc un prêt de 44 millions d’euros, s’est ouvert jeudi.
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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