orchis
\ɔʁ.kis\
The verdict
“orchis” is uncommon French (frequency #84,126 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,126
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orchidée sauvage terrestre, du genre Orchis, créé par Linné en 1753, qui regroupait alors de nombreuses espèces dont certaines ont ensuite été déplacées dans d’autres genres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orchis · orchis · French
orchis · rank #84,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,126
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orchestrations
Nearest frequency peer: orchestrations (-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 « orchis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- onirisme
onirisme
15,881 corpus weight
- oratoriens
oratoriens
15,877 corpus weight
- orchestrati…
orchestrations
15,876 corpus weight
- orchis
orchis
15,875 corpus weight
- orde
orde
15,874 corpus weight
- orden
orden
15,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orchis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orchis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.kis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orchis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orchis is uncommon French at frequency #84,126 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.kis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orchidée sauvage terrestre, du genre Orchis, créé par Linné en 1753, qui regroupait alors de nombreuses espèces dont certaines ont ensuite été déplacées dans d’autres genres.".
orchis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is orchis, spelled O-R-C-H-I-S.
Definition
- 1Orchidée sauvage terrestre, du genre Orchis, créé par Linné en 1753, qui regroupait alors de nombreuses espèces dont certaines ont ensuite été déplacées dans d’autres genres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orchis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plus riches ornements d’une fleur de serre, les veines nacrées d’un orchis, le velours pâle qui borde les ailes d’un papillon n’est pas plus doux et à la fois plus splendide.
Quatre maisons fleuries d’orchis jusque sous les tuiles émergent de blés drus et hauts.
This word in other languages
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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