Xoxo

\ʃo.ʃo\

/\ʃo.ʃo\/ name

The verdict

“Xoxo” is uncommon French (frequency #88,237 among 62 “X” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,237
frequency rank, French
62
“X” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village du Cap-Vert.

Corpus desk

Index FR-xoxo · Xoxo · French

Xoxo · rank #88,237 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,237
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 62
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yasin

Nearest frequency peer: Yasin (+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 « Xoxo »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Xoxo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Xoxo
PropertyValue
HeadwordXoxo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʃo.ʃo\
Letters4
Frequency rank#88,237
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Xoxo » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Xoxotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Yasin » (#88,238), « Wurst » (#88,235), « WK » (#88,234). Parmi 62 lemmes en « X », « Xoxo » est au #88,237. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Xoxo is uncommon French at frequency #88,237 among 62 “X” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʃo.ʃo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Village du Cap-Vert.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Xoxo, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Xoxo, spelled X-O-X-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Village du Cap-Vert.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Plus loin, le cirque de Delgadinho livre ses parois vertigineuses ; la vallée de Xoxo (prononcez Chocho) déborde de luxuriance, sur fond de pitons acérés ; et le village de Punta del Sol, accessible par une route de falaise ultrascénique, plonge vers l’Atlantique dans une nonchalance apaisante.
  2. Je continue à pied sur la route vers Xoxo et rapidement je pénètre dans une vallée encaissée.

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 "Xoxo"?
"Xoxo" is spelled X-O-X-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃo.ʃo\.
What does "Xoxo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Xoxo" means: Village du Cap-Vert.
How do you pronounce "Xoxo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Xoxo" is \ʃo.ʃo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Xoxo" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list