onglet

/\ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,219

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

onglet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Embout de faible épaisseur, de forme courbée, et de silhouette pointue, que l’on porte sur l’extrémité d’un doigt, et qui imite un ongle à la manière d’une prothèse. Pronounced \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\. Often confused with onglets and oncle.

Key facts for onglet
PropertyValue
Headwordonglet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,219
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for onglet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,219 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for onglet, with forms such as "noglet", "ognlet", and "ongelt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "onglets", "oncle", "ongle", 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 onglet, spelled O-N-G-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Embout de faible épaisseur, de forme courbée, et de silhouette pointue, que l’on porte sur l’extrémité d’un doigt, et qui imite un ongle à la manière d’une prothèse.
  2. 2
    Embout de faible épaisseur, de forme courbée, et de silhouette pointue, que l’on porte sur l’extrémité d’un doigt, et qui imite un ongle à la manière d’une prothèse.
  3. 3
    Bande étroite de papier, brochée ou reliée avec les feuillets d’un livre et sur laquelle est collé un feuillet, une gravure, une carte, etc.
  4. 4
    Indentation permettant de passer de l’un à l’autre d’une série de fenêtre de même type.
  5. 5
    Un carton de deux pages.
  6. 6
    Extrémité d’une planche, d’une moulure qui, au lieu d’être terminée à angle droit, forme un angle de quarante-cinq degrés.
  7. 7
    Échancrure sur le plat d’une règle de fer ou de bois.
  8. 8
    Portion du volume d’une sphère comprise entre deux plans diamétraux.
  9. 9
    Partie inférieure et rétrécie d’un pétale, reliant celui-ci au calice.
  10. 10
    Morceau de viande de bœuf ou de veau situé sur le ventre, sous le faux-filet et le filet.
  11. 11
    Espèce de burin, dit aussi onglette qui ne diffère du burin ordinaire des graveurs qu’en ce que son extrémité est en losange.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: noglet,ognlet,ongelt,ongglet,onglett,ongllet,onglte,onlget,onnglet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for onglet

Misspelling Variants of "onglet"

noglet6ognlet6ongelt6ongglet7onglett7ongllet7onglte6onlget6
Misspelling Variants of "onglet"

Frequency rank: #20,219 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "onglet"?
"onglet" is spelled O-N-G-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\.
What does "onglet" mean?
As a noun, "onglet" means: Embout de faible épaisseur, de forme courbée, et de silhouette pointue, que l’on porte sur l’extrémité d’un doigt, et qui imite un ongle à la manière d’une prothèse.
What words are commonly confused with "onglet"?
"onglet" is commonly confused with "onglets", "oncle", "ongle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "onglet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "onglet" is \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "onglet" come from?
"onglet" 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.