oracle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,526
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
oracle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Selon la croyance des Anciens, réponse d’une divinité que l’on venait consulter en un lieu sacré, et dont un interprète inspiré devait dévoiler le sens, sans parvenir toujours à l’éclairer. Pronounced \ɔ.ʁɑkl\. Often confused with oral and orage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oracle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁɑkl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oracle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ʁɑkl\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,526 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for oracle, with forms such as "oarcle", "oraccle", and "oracel". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "oral", "orage", "orale", 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 oracle, spelled O-R-A-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Selon la croyance des Anciens, réponse d’une divinité que l’on venait consulter en un lieu sacré, et dont un interprète inspiré devait dévoiler le sens, sans parvenir toujours à l’éclairer.
- 2Sanctuaire dans lequel on interrogeait la divinité, selon des formules rituelles.
- 3La parole de Dieu, telle qu’elle s’exprime par la bouche des prophètes.
- 4La divinité elle-même ; celui ou celle qui parlait en son nom.
- 5Avis d’une personne considérée comme infaillible, que l’on suit sans réserve.
- 6Cette personne elle-même.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oarcle,oraccle,oracel,oraclle,oralce,orcale,orracle,roacle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oracle
Misspelling Variants of "oracle"
Frequency rank: #14,526 in French
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