oreillette
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,301
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
oreillette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des deux cavités du cœur qui sont placées au-dessus des deux ventricules. Pronounced \ɔ.ʁɛ.jɛt\. Often confused with oreillettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oreillette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁɛ.jɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oreillette is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ʁɛ.jɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,301 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for oreillette, with forms such as "oerillette", "oreileltte", and "oreilette". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "oreillettes", 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 oreillette, spelled O-R-E-I-L-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des deux cavités du cœur qui sont placées au-dessus des deux ventricules.
- 2Écouteur discret, placé dans le pavillon de l’oreille.
- 3Genre de beignet composé d’une pâte frite très fine et croustillante, saupoudrée de sucre.
- 4Asarum europaeum ^([1]), l’asaret d’Europe (plante herbacée).
- 5Appendice situé à la base du limbe d’une feuille ou d’une bractée embrassante, ou encore à la base du pétiole, de part et d’autre de la ligne d’insertion.
- 6Anse d’un récipient.
- 7Élément d’une coiffure qui couvre les oreilles.
- 8Partie de casque (camail, etc.) qui couvrait l'oreille.
- 9Élément latéral du dossier d'un fauteuil, destiné à reposer la tête.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oerillette,oreileltte,oreilette,oreillete,oreilletet,oreilltete,orelilette,oriellette,orreillette,roeillette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oreillette
Misspelling Variants of "oreillette"
Frequency rank: #23,301 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "oreillette"?
What does "oreillette" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "oreillette"?
How do you pronounce "oreillette"?
What language does "oreillette" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our French index: