oignon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,439
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
oignon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante à bulbe comestible, de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des amaryllidacées (classification phylogénétique). Pronounced \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\. Often confused with oignons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oignon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oignon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ɲɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,439 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for oignon, with forms such as "iognon", "oginon", and "oiggnon". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oignons", 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 oignon, spelled O-I-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.
- 4Callosité douloureuse qui vient aux pieds.
- 5Anus.
- 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iognon,oginon,oiggnon,oignno,oignnon,oignonn,oigonn,oingon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oignon
Misspelling Variants of "oignon"
Frequency rank: #13,439 in French
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