orgueil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,453
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
orgueil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment qui porte à se penser au-dessus des autres. Opinion très avantageuse, le plus souvent exagérée, qu’une personne a de sa valeur personnelle aux dépens de la considération due à autrui. Pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡœj\. Often confused with orteil and orgues.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orgueil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ɡœj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orgueil is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.ɡœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,453 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 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for orgueil, with forms such as "ogrueil", "orgeuil", and "orggueil". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "orteil", "orgues", "orgue", 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 orgueil, spelled O-R-G-U-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sentiment qui porte à se penser au-dessus des autres. Opinion très avantageuse, le plus souvent exagérée, qu’une personne a de sa valeur personnelle aux dépens de la considération due à autrui.
- 2Légitime fierté qui éloigne de la bassesse.
- 3Cale en matériau résistant destinée à être mise sous un levier pour servir de point d'appui.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ogrueil,orgeuil,orggueil,orgueill,orgueli,orguiel,orrgueil,orugeil,rogueil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orgueil
Misspelling Variants of "orgueil"
Frequency rank: #11,453 in French
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