orge
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,435
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
orge is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \ɔʁʒ\. Often confused with ose and ôté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orge is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,435 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for orge, with forms such as "oreg", "orgge", and "orrge". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ors", 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 orge, spelled O-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom 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.
- 2Sans précision : orge commune
- 3Grains comestible que produisent ces plantes, utilisés entre autres pour produire de la bière et du whisky.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oreg,orgge,orrge,roge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orge
Misspelling Variants of "orge"
Frequency rank: #12,435 in French
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