onze

^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\

/^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\/ adj

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The verdict

“onze” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,783) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,783
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 11.

Corpus desk

Index FR-onze · onze · French

onze · rank #3,783 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,783
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH olympiques

Nearest frequency peer: olympiques (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « onze »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « onze » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

onze vs ose
50% similar
onze vs ôté
0% similar
onze vs orge
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for onze
PropertyValue
Headwordonze
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,783
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « onze »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).onzese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « olympiques » (#3,782), « parisienne » (#3,784), « oiseau » (#3,781). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « onze » est au #3,783. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for onze is neighbouring look-alikes ("ose", "ôté", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\. Frequency #3,783 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for onze, with forms such as "noze", "onez", and "onnze". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "orge", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 onze, spelled O-N-Z-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dix plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 11.
  2. 2
    Onzième.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how onze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Onze DJ vont sortir leurs clés USB et leurs vinyls pour des sets endiablés et faire groover le public.
  2. Le roi Louis XI.

This word in other languages

eleven(English)once(Español)elf(Deutsch)onze(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • noze
  • onez
  • onnze
  • onzze

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of onze - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

noze2onez2onnze1onzze1
Edit distance from "onze"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "onze"?
"onze" is spelled O-N-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\.
What does "onze" mean?
As an adjective, "onze" means: Dix plus un, adjectif numéral cardinal correspondant au nombre 11.
What words are commonly confused with "onze"?
"onze" is commonly confused with "ose", "ôté", "orge". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "onze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "onze" is ^((h aspiré))\ɔ̃z\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "onze" come from?
"onze" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "onze", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mark#3,777Tony#3,808tués#3,809feux#3,756

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list