organe

/\ɔʁ.ɡan\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,636

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

organe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie d’un organisme vivant, considéré comme un tout et comme remplissant une fonction nécessaire ou utile à sa vie. Pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡan\. It ranks #6,636 in French word frequency. Often confused with orge and orne.

Key facts for organe
PropertyValue
Headwordorgane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.ɡan\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,636
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of organe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for organe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.ɡan\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,636 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for organe, with forms such as "ograne", "orgaen", and "organne". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "orge", "orne", "orgue", and more, 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 organe, spelled O-R-G-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie d’un organisme vivant, considéré comme un tout et comme remplissant une fonction nécessaire ou utile à sa vie.
  2. 2
    La voix.
  3. 3
    Les diverses parties d’une machine.
  4. 4
    Ce dont on se sert pour déclarer ses volontés, par l’entremise et par le moyen de quoi on fait quelque chose.
  5. 5
    Journal, gazette de propagande, toute publication en tant qu'elle est le porte-parole d'une institution ou d'un groupe d'influence.
  6. 6
    Organe génital.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ograne,orgaen,organne,orggane,orgnae,orrgane,rogane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for organe

Misspelling Variants of "organe"

ograne6orgaen6organne7orggane7orgnae6orrgane7rogane6
Misspelling Variants of "organe"

Frequency rank: #6,636 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "organe"?
"organe" is spelled O-R-G-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.ɡan\.
What does "organe" mean?
As a noun, "organe" means: Partie d’un organisme vivant, considéré comme un tout et comme remplissant une fonction nécessaire ou utile à sa vie.
What words are commonly confused with "organe"?
"organe" is commonly confused with "orge", "orne", "orgue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "organe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "organe" is \ɔʁ.ɡan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "organe" come from?
"organe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.