organisme

\ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\

/\ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\/ noun

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The verdict

“organisme” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,437
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être vivant individuel, unicellulaire ou pluricellulaire, possédant une organisation interne autonome lui permettant d'accomplir ses fonctions vitales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-organisme · organisme · French

organisme · rank #2,437 · 13 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,437
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH one

Nearest frequency peer: one (-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 « organisme »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « organisme » 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).

organisme vs orgasme
78% similar
organisme vs organiste
89% similar
organisme vs organismes
90% similar

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

Key facts for organisme
PropertyValue
Headwordorganisme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,437
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « organisme »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « one » (#2,436), « passent » (#2,438), « officielle » (#2,435). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « organisme » est au #2,437. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around organisme (IPA \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,437 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for organisme, with forms such as "ogranisme", "oragnisme", and "orgainsme". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "orgasme", "organiste", "organismes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is organisme, spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Être vivant individuel, unicellulaire ou pluricellulaire, possédant une organisation interne autonome lui permettant d'accomplir ses fonctions vitales.
  2. 2
    Ensemble d'organes ou de systèmes assurant les fonctions vitales d’un être vivant complexe.
  3. 3
    Organisation structurée regroupant des personnes et des ressources, poursuivant un but commun, qu'il soit social, économique, administratif, politique ou culturel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les anciens avaient justement montré le rôle de l’organisme vivant comme cause génératrice des maladies, les éléments extérieurs en étant les causes provocatrices.
  2. Les phytosanitaires, quant à eux, n'exercent pas seulement leur action toxique sur les espèces ciblées, mais également sur les autres organismes vivants. Le révélateur du problème fut vraisemblablement le cas du DDT, […].

Synonyms

corpsorgane

This word in other languages

organism(English)organismo(Español)Lebewesen(Deutsch)organismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ogranisme
  • oragnisme
  • orgainsme
  • organimse
  • organisem
  • organismme
  • organissme
  • organnisme
  • organsime
  • orgganisme
  • orgnaisme
  • orrganisme
  • roganisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of organisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ogranisme2oragnisme2orgainsme2organimse2organisem2organismme1organissme1organnisme1
Edit distance from "organisme"

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 "organisme"?
"organisme" is spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\.
What does "organisme" mean?
As a noun, "organisme" means: Être vivant individuel, unicellulaire ou pluricellulaire, possédant une organisation interne autonome lui permettant d'accomplir ses fonctions vitales.
What words are commonly confused with "organisme"?
"organisme" is commonly confused with "orgasme", "organiste", "organismes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "organisme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "organisme" is \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "organisme" come from?
"organisme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ministres#2,433princesse#2,441quartiers#2,445réfléchir#2,451

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

judiciaire13 variantséquilibre13 variantscondamné13 variantspersonnelle13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list