orgues
\ɔʁɡ\
The verdict
“orgues” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,466
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de orgue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orgues · orgues · French
orgues · rank #29,466 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,466
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Orban
Nearest frequency peer: Orban (-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 « orgues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oculus
oculus
70,538 corpus weight
- optimum
optimum
70,537 corpus weight
- Orban
Orban
70,536 corpus weight
- orgues
orgues
70,535 corpus weight
- outremer
outremer
70,534 corpus weight
- parades
parades
70,532 corpus weight
What this shows « orgues » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orgues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orgues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around orgues (IPA \ɔʁɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,466 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de orgue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for orgues, with forms such as "ogrues", "orgeus", and "orggues". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "ornés", "ormes", "orque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is orgues, spelled O-R-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de orgue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orgues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux orgues sont soutenus par des consoles qui font corps avec les piliers a et b.
Les orgues, d’une proportion gigantesque, ont l’air des colonnes basaltiques de la caverne de Fingal, et pourtant les ouragans et les tonnerres qui s’échappent de leurs tuyaux, gros comme des canons de siège, semblent des murmures mélodieux, des gazouillements d’oiseaux et de séraphins sous ces ogives colossales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ogrues
- orgeus
- orggues
- orguess
- orguse
- orrgues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orgues - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).