orge

\ɔʁʒ\

/\ɔʁʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“orge” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,435) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#12,435
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Hordeum de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae), céréale à paille utilisée pour nourrir les animaux et caractérisée par un chaume noueux dont la fleur constitue u...

Corpus desk

Index FR-orge · orge · French

orge · rank #12,435 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,435
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH offertes

Nearest frequency peer: offertes (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « orge »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « orge » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

orge vs ose
50% similar
orge vs ôté
0% similar
orge vs ors
50% similar

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

Key facts for orge
PropertyValue
Headwordorge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁʒ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#12,435
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « orge »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).orgese 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 « offertes » (#12,434), « parvenus » (#12,436), « obésité » (#12,433). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « orge » est au #12,435. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for orge is neighbouring look-alikes ("ose", "ôté", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔʁʒ\. Frequency #12,435 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for orge, with forms such as "oreg", "orgge", and "orrge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ors", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is orge, spelled O-R-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Hordeum de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae), céréale à paille utilisée pour nourrir les animaux et caractérisée par un chaume noueux dont la fleur constitue un ensemble d’épis.
  2. 2
    Sans précision : orge commune
  3. 3
    Grains comestible que produisent ces plantes, utilisés entre autres pour produire de la bière et du whisky.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Son sol est formé d’une couche presque ininterrompue d’une terre végétale noire et grasse qui, au printemps, se couvre de blé, d’orge, de maïs, de fèves, de pois chiches.
  2. Dans cette terre riche en humus et en azote et qui n’avait pas vu le soleil depuis six ans, c’était bien le diable si l’orge ne faisait pas merveille.

This word in other languages

barley(English)cebada(Español)Gerste(Deutsch)cevada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oreg
  • orgge
  • orrge
  • roge

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

oreg2orgge1orrge1roge2
Edit distance from "orge"

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 "orge"?
"orge" is spelled O-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁʒ\.
What does "orge" mean?
As a noun, "orge" means: Nom donné à plusieurs plantes du genre Hordeum de la famille des Poacées (Poaceae), céréale à paille utilisée pour nourrir les animaux et caractérisée par un chaume noueux dont la fleur constitue u...
What words are commonly confused with "orge"?
"orge" is commonly confused with "ose", "ôté", "ors". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "orge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orge" is \ɔʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orge" come from?
"orge" 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 "orge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pics#12,441pole#12,447lang#12,408jade#12,403

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list