organisme
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,437
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
organisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Être vivant individuel, unicellulaire ou pluricellulaire, possédant une organisation interne autonome lui permettant d'accomplir ses fonctions vitales. Pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\. It ranks #2,437 in French word frequency. Often confused with orgasme and organiste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | organisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for organisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.ɡa.nism\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,437 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for organisme, with forms such as "ogranisme", "oragnisme", and "orgainsme". 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 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 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 organisme, spelled O-R-G-A-N-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être vivant individuel, unicellulaire ou pluricellulaire, possédant une organisation interne autonome lui permettant d'accomplir ses fonctions vitales.
- 2Ensemble d'organes ou de systèmes assurant les fonctions vitales d’un être vivant complexe.
- 3Organisation structurée regroupant des personnes et des ressources, poursuivant un but commun, qu'il soit social, économique, administratif, politique ou culturel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ogranisme,oragnisme,orgainsme,organimse,organisem,organismme,organissme,organnisme,organsime,orgganisme,orgnaisme,orrganisme,roganisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for organisme
Misspelling Variants of "organisme"
Frequency rank: #2,437 in French
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