orifice
\ɔ.ʁi.fis\
The verdict
“orifice” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,895
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture qui forme l’entrée de certaines excavations naturelles ou artificielles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orifice · orifice · French
orifice · rank #29,895 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,895
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ordination
Nearest frequency peer: ordination (-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 « orifice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- omniprésence
omniprésence
70,109 corpus weight
- orateurs
orateurs
70,108 corpus weight
- ordination
ordination
70,107 corpus weight
- orifice
orifice
70,106 corpus weight
- ornent
ornent
70,105 corpus weight
- oscillant
oscillant
70,104 corpus weight
What this shows « orifice » 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 | orifice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.fis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orifice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around orifice (IPA \ɔ.ʁi.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,895 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for orifice, with forms such as "oirfice", "orfiice", and "orifcie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "origine", "orifices", "office", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is orifice, spelled O-R-I-F-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ouverture qui forme l’entrée de certaines excavations naturelles ou artificielles.
- 2Ouverture plus ou moins étroite qui sert d’entrée ou d’issue à certains organes, à certains appareils.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orifice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les couches supérieures étant tout-à-fait meubles, il eût fallu un orifice très large à cette excavation pour que les éboulements ne la bouchassent pas en même temps qu'on la creusait.
Après un tel paroxysme, l’éboulement des côtés du cratère obstrue encore plus l’orifice du volcan, et l’oblitère entièrement. On peut alors procéder à des observations […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oirfice
- orfiice
- orifcie
- oriffice
- orificce
- orifiec
- oriifce
- orrifice
- roifice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orifice - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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