onglet
\ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\
The verdict
“onglet” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #20,219 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,219
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | onglet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “onglet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for onglet is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for onglet, with forms such as "noglet", "ognlet", and "ongelt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "onglets", "oncle", "ongle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is onglet, spelled O-N-G-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Embout 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.
- 2Embout 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.
- 3Bande étroite de papier, brochée ou reliée avec les feuillets d’un livre et sur laquelle est collé un feuillet, une gravure, une carte, etc.
- 4Indentation permettant de passer de l’un à l’autre d’une série de fenêtre de même type.
- 5Un carton de deux pages.
- 6Extrémité d’une planche, d’une moulure qui, au lieu d’être terminée à angle droit, forme un angle de quarante-cinq degrés.
- 7Échancrure sur le plat d’une règle de fer ou de bois.
- 8Portion du volume d’une sphère comprise entre deux plans diamétraux.
- 9Partie inférieure et rétrécie d’un pétale, reliant celui-ci au calice.
- 10Morceau de viande de bœuf ou de veau situé sur le ventre, sous le faux-filet et le filet.
- 11Espèce 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of onglet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “onglet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-N-G-L-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɔ̃.ɡlɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “onglets” - see the side-by-side comparison. onglet vs onglets
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.