orée

\ɔ.ʁe\

/\ɔ.ʁe\/ noun

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The verdict

“orée” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,671. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,671
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le bord, la lisière d’un bois.

Corpus desk

Index FR-oree · orée · French

orée · rank #28,671 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,671
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH opportunistes

Nearest frequency peer: opportunistes (-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 « orée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « orée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

orée vs ose
50% similar
orée vs ôté
25% similar
orée vs ors
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for orée
PropertyValue
Headwordorée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.ʁe\
Letters4
Frequency rank#28,671
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).oréese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « opportunistes » (#28,670), « osera » (#28,672), « Ophélie » (#28,669). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « orée » est au #28,671. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around orée (IPA \ɔ.ʁe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,671 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for orée, with forms such as "oree", "oreé", and "orrée". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ors", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is orée, spelled O-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le bord, la lisière d’un bois.
  2. 2
    Bordure d’un champ, d’une pâture.
  3. 3
    Début ; entrée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how orée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Simple et rustique, elle est située, ma chaumière, comme une habitation de garde, à l’orée d’un joli bois de hêtres, […].
  2. 2 000 panneaux d’information vont être disposés à l’orée de plusieurs forêts domaniales.

This word in other languages

edge(English)orilla(Español)orla(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oree
  • oreé
  • orrée
  • oére
  • roée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

oree1oreé2orrée1oére2roée2
Edit distance from "orée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "orée"?
"orée" is spelled O-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.ʁe\.
What does "orée" mean?
As a noun, "orée" means: Le bord, la lisière d’un bois.
What words are commonly confused with "orée"?
"orée" is commonly confused with "ose", "ôté", "ors". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "orée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orée" is \ɔ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orée" come from?
"orée" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "orée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mano#28,643rixe#28,726rusé#28,728Inès#28,612

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

tuile5 variantsexam5 variantsYaya5 variantsabbey5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list