ophrys
\ɔ.fʁis\
The verdict
“ophrys” is uncommon French (frequency #99,442 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,442
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre d’orchidées terrestres euroméditerranéennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ophrys · ophrys · French
ophrys · rank #99,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,442
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Onema
Nearest frequency peer: Onema (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ophrys »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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Oeillet
564 corpus weight
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oligarchies
562 corpus weight
- Onema
Onema
560 corpus weight
- ophrys
ophrys
559 corpus weight
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orchestrales
557 corpus weight
- organigramm…
organigrammes
555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ophrys » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ophrys |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fʁis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ophrys » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ophrys is uncommon French at frequency #99,442 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.fʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre d’orchidées terrestres euroméditerranéennes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ophrys, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ophrys, spelled O-P-H-R-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Genre d’orchidées terrestres euroméditerranéennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ophrys appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ophrys sont des plantes herbacées à 2 ou 3 tubercules, avec des feuilles en rosette basale et une hampe florale à peu de fleurs aux sépales et pétales latéraux étalés, au labelle sans éperon, avec une partie glabre et une partie poilue…
Certains insectes mâles sont attirés par la forme, les couleurs et l’odeur (phéromones) des fleurs d’ophrys et essaient de copuler les labelles, assurant par là la pollinisation.
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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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