ivoire
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,079
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ivoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance dure, blanche, opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme l’éléphant, l’hippopotame, le morse. Pronounced \i.vwaʁ\. It ranks #4,079 in French word frequency. Often confused with ivre and ivoirien.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ivoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ivoire is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.vwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,079 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ivoire, with forms such as "iovire", "iviore", and "ivoier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ivre", "ivoirien", "Issoire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ivoire, spelled I-V-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance dure, blanche, opaque qui est la matière principale des dents et des défenses d’animaux comme l’éléphant, l’hippopotame, le morse.
- 2Objet d’art travaillé en ivoire.
- 3Substance majoritaire constituant la dent et plus généralement l’organe dentaire.
- 4D’un blanc parfait.
- 5Couleur qui rappelle celle de l’ivoire. #FFFFD4
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iovire,iviore,ivoier,ivoirre,ivorie,ivvoire,vioire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ivoire"
Frequency rank: #4,079 in French
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