oranje
\oˈrɑɲə\
The verdict
“oranje” is uncommon French (frequency #83,218 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,218
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orange (couleur).
Corpus desk
Index FR-oranje · oranje · French
oranje · rank #83,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opérettes
Nearest frequency peer: opérettes (-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 « oranje »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- optimaux
optimaux
16,785 corpus weight
- opérettes
opérettes
16,784 corpus weight
- oranje
oranje
16,783 corpus weight
- orchestrés
orchestrés
16,782 corpus weight
- oscillante
oscillante
16,781 corpus weight
- oscillé
oscillé
16,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oranje » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oranje |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \oˈrɑɲə\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oranje » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oranje is uncommon French at frequency #83,218 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \oˈrɑɲə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orange (couleur).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for oranje in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is oranje, spelled O-R-A-N-J-E.
Definition
- 1Orange (couleur).
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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