onde
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,324
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
onde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ondulations d’un milieu élastique ou d’un flux électromagnétique. Perturbation d’un milieu qui se propage. Pronounced \ɔ̃d\. It ranks #6,324 in French word frequency. Often confused with ont and one.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for onde is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ̃d\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,324 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for onde, with forms such as "node", "odne", and "ondde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ont", "one", "ose", 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 onde, spelled O-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ondulations d’un milieu élastique ou d’un flux électromagnétique. Perturbation d’un milieu qui se propage.
- 2Émission radiophonique ou télévisuelle.
- 3L’eau, en général.
- 4La mer.
- 5Ce qui présente une surface ridée, alternativement concave et convexe, ce qui a des variations alternatives de teintes qui ressemblent aux ondes de la mer.
- 6Meuble représentant un élément liquide dans les armoiries. Ce terme est générique. Elle est généralement représentée par une figure en longueur (fasce, bande…) dont le périmètre forme des ondulations. Elle peut également faire référence à un meuble occupant la place de la champagne (mouvante de la pointe). Tout élément adoptant la même apparence, sera dit ondé. À rapprocher de mer et rivière.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: node,odne,ondde,oned,onnde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for onde
Misspelling Variants of "onde"
Frequency rank: #6,324 in French
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