oeuvres

/\œvʁ\/ typographic variant

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,372

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

oeuvres is aFrenchtypographic variant. It means: Pluriel de oeuvre ; variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvres. Pronounced \œvʁ\. It ranks #5,372 in French word frequency. Often confused with ouvre and ouvrez.

Key facts for oeuvres
PropertyValue
Headwordoeuvres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechTypographic variant
IPA\œvʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,372
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of oeuvres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for oeuvres is 7 letters long, classified as atypographic variant, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,372 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de oeuvre ; variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvres.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for oeuvres, with forms such as "eouvres", "oeurves", and "oeuvers". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ouvre", "ouvrez", "ouvres", and more, 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 oeuvres, spelled O-E-U-V-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de oeuvre ; variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvres.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eouvres,oeurves,oeuvers,oeuvress,oeuvrres,oeuvrse,oeuvvres,oevures,ouevres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oeuvres

Misspelling Variants of "oeuvres"

eouvres7oeurves7oeuvers7oeuvress8oeuvrres8oeuvrse7oeuvvres8oevures7
Misspelling Variants of "oeuvres"

Frequency rank: #5,372 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oeuvres"?
"oeuvres" is spelled O-E-U-V-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \œvʁ\.
What does "oeuvres" mean?
As a typographic variant, "oeuvres" means: Pluriel de oeuvre ; variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvres.
What words are commonly confused with "oeuvres"?
"oeuvres" is commonly confused with "ouvre", "ouvrez", "ouvres". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "oeuvres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oeuvres" is \œvʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oeuvres" come from?
"oeuvres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.