orfèvre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,382
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
orfèvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Artisan et marchand qui fabrique et qui vend des bijoux et autres ouvrages d’or et d’argent, de platine ou de tout métal précieux. Pronounced \ɔʁ.fɛvʁ\. Often confused with orfèvres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orfèvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.fɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orfèvre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.fɛvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,382 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for orfèvre, with forms such as "ofrèvre", "orfevre", and "orffèvre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "orfèvres", 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 orfèvre, spelled O-R-F-È-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artisan et marchand qui fabrique et qui vend des bijoux et autres ouvrages d’or et d’argent, de platine ou de tout métal précieux.
- 2Professionnel méticuleux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ofrèvre,orfevre,orffèvre,orfvère,orfèrve,orfèver,orfèvrre,orfèvvre,orrfèvre,orèfvre,rofèvre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orfèvre
Misspelling Variants of "orfèvre"
Frequency rank: #33,382 in French
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