orel
\ɔrɛl\
The verdict
“orel” is uncommon French (frequency #67,751 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,751
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aigle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orel · orel · French
orel · rank #67,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,751
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orientable
Nearest frequency peer: orientable (+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 « orel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opposables
opposables
32,254 corpus weight
- opposons
opposons
32,253 corpus weight
- optic
optic
32,252 corpus weight
- orel
orel
32,250 corpus weight
- orientable
orientable
32,249 corpus weight
- Oronte
Oronte
32,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔrɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orel is uncommon French at frequency #67,751 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔrɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for orel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is orel, spelled O-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Aigle.
- 2Revers d'une pièce (autrefois ornée de l'oiseau).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Na nebi kroužili orli.
Padne panna nebo orel?
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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