orange
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,092
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
orange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit de l’oranger, agrume de couleur orangée et de forme sphérique, composé d’une écorce orange avec une chair juteuse et divisé en loges par des cloisons. Pronounced \o.ʁɑ̃ʒ\. It ranks #2,092 in French word frequency. Often confused with orge and orne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ʁɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orange is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.ʁɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,092 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 orange, with forms such as "oarnge", "oragne", and "oraneg". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "orge", "orne", "otage", 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 orange, spelled O-R-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit de l’oranger, agrume de couleur orangée et de forme sphérique, composé d’une écorce orange avec une chair juteuse et divisé en loges par des cloisons.
- 2Oranger.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oarnge,oragne,oraneg,orangge,orannge,ornage,orrange,roange
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orange
Misspelling Variants of "orange"
Frequency rank: #2,092 in French
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