orage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,471
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
orage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Perturbation atmosphérique, ordinairement de peu de durée, qui se manifeste par un vent impétueux, de la pluie ou de la grêle, des éclairs et du tonnerre ou une tornade. Pronounced \ɔ.ʁaʒ\. It ranks #7,471 in French word frequency. Often confused with oral and orge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ʁaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,471 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for orage, with forms such as "oarge", "oraeg", and "oragge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oral", "orge", "Oran", 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 orage, spelled O-R-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Perturbation atmosphérique, ordinairement de peu de durée, qui se manifeste par un vent impétueux, de la pluie ou de la grêle, des éclairs et du tonnerre ou une tornade.
- 2Malheurs dont on est menacé ; disgrâces qui surviennent tout à coup, soit dans les affaires publiques, soit dans la fortune des particuliers.
- 3Désaccord violent qui se produit entre deux ou plusieurs personnes.
- 4Ce qui vient troubler la paix de l’âme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oarge,oraeg,oragge,orgae,orrage,roage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orage
Misspelling Variants of "orage"
Frequency rank: #7,471 in French
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