ordures
\ɔʁ.dyʁ\
The verdict
“ordures” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,202
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ordure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ordures · ordures · French
ordures · rank #10,202 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ny
Nearest frequency peer: ny (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ordures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mobiliser
mobiliser
89,802 corpus weight
- montent
montent
89,801 corpus weight
- ny
ny
89,800 corpus weight
- ordures
ordures
89,799 corpus weight
- orientations
orientations
89,798 corpus weight
- Pablo
Pablo
89,797 corpus weight
What this shows « ordures » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ordures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ordures (IPA \ɔʁ.dyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,202 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ordure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ordures, with forms such as "odrures", "orddures", and "ordrues". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "orgues", "orques", "ordre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ordures, spelled O-R-D-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ordure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ordures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sache donc, l’Échalas, que ce que raconte la copine pourrait être pratiqué dès aujourd’hui, si les bourgeois y trouvaient profit : en effet le truc électrique pour désempuanter les ordures et le bouillon des égouts est trouvé depuis des années, — y a qu’à l’appliquer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- odrures
- orddures
- ordrues
- orduers
- orduress
- ordurres
- ordurse
- orrdures
- orudres
- rodures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ordures - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).