ognon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#67,741
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ognon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante à bulbe comestible, de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des amaryllidacées (classification phylogénétique). Pronounced \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ognon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ognon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,741 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ognon in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ognon, spelled O-G-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante à bulbe comestible, de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des amaryllidacées (classification phylogénétique).
- 2Bulbe de cette plante, utilisé comme légume ou condiment.
- 3Bulbe de plante.
- 4Anus.
- 5Callosité douloureuse qui vient aux pieds.
- 6Montre de poche, montre à gousset épaisse et de forme rebondie.
- 7Ce qui concerne ou regarde quelqu’un en personne.
- 8Couleur rose violacée que présente la pellicule de l’oignon.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #67,741 in French
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