orifices
\ɔ.ʁi.fis\
The verdict
“orifices” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,651. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,651
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de orifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orifices · orifices · French
orifices · rank #34,651 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,651
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oralement
Nearest frequency peer: oralement (-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 « orifices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- OPEP
OPEP
65,353 corpus weight
- optimales
optimales
65,352 corpus weight
- oralement
oralement
65,351 corpus weight
- orifices
orifices
65,350 corpus weight
- ouch
ouch
65,348 corpus weight
- ovaire
ovaire
65,347 corpus weight
What this shows « orifices » 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 | orifices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.fis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orifices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around orifices (IPA \ɔ.ʁi.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,651 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de orifice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for orifices, with forms such as "oirfices", "orfiices", and "orifcies". 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, "origines", "offices", "orifice", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is orifices, spelled O-R-I-F-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de orifice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orifices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ethnographie nous fournirait bien des exemples de cette symétrisation, à mi-chemin entre le normal et le morbide, comme la tendance à symétriser les orifices corporels chez les Indiens Mohave, à « vaginaliser » la bouche et l’anus et, réciproquement, à « buccaliser » ou « analiser » le vagin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oirfices
- orfiices
- orifcies
- oriffices
- orificces
- orificess
- orificse
- orifiecs
- oriifces
- orrifices
- roifices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orifices - 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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Same letter count
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