organe

\ɔʁ.ɡan\

/\ɔʁ.ɡan\/ noun

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The verdict

“organe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,636. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,636
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie d’un organisme vivant, considéré comme un tout et comme remplissant une fonction nécessaire ou utile à sa vie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-organe · organe · French

organe · rank #6,636 · 7 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,636
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH opposants

Nearest frequency peer: opposants (-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 « organe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « organe » 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).

organe vs orge
67% similar
organe vs orne
67% similar
organe vs orgue
67% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « organe »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « opposants » (#6,635), « passeport » (#6,637), « nuage » (#6,634). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « organe » est au #6,636. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around organe (IPA \ɔʁ.ɡan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,636 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for organe, with forms such as "ograne", "orgaen", and "organne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "orge", "orne", "orgue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is organe, spelled O-R-G-A-N-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Voilà pourquoi la fissiparité n'est point possible chez les êtres dont la vie se trouve concentrée en une parfaite unité, et qui ont des organes centraux , un cœur et un cerveau.
  2. « Tous les animaux, écrivait Bichat, sont des assemblages de divers organes qui, en exécutant chacun sa fonction, concourent, chacun à sa manière, à la conservation du tout. »

Synonyms

partiecomposantélément

This word in other languages

organ(English)órgano(Español)Organ(Deutsch)organo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ograne
  • orgaen
  • organne
  • orggane
  • orgnae
  • orrgane
  • rogane

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of organe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ograne2orgaen2organne1orggane1orgnae2orrgane1rogane2
Edit distance from "organe"

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 "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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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Munich#6,633pressé#6,643rachat#6,648humide#6,621

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

phare7 variantslisez7 variantsgrain7 variantsfiers7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list