orignal
\ɔ.ʁi.ɲal\
The verdict
“orignal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,433
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de mammifères de la famille des cervidés (Cervidae). Cousin nord-américain de l’élan européen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orignal · orignal · French
orignal · rank #41,433 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,433
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oppresseur
Nearest frequency peer: oppresseur (-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 « orignal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ombilical
ombilical
58,571 corpus weight
- opiacés
opiacés
58,570 corpus weight
- oppresseur
oppresseur
58,569 corpus weight
- orignal
orignal
58,568 corpus weight
- orthographes
orthographes
58,567 corpus weight
- osm
osm
58,566 corpus weight
What this shows « orignal » 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 | orignal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.ɲal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orignal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around orignal (IPA \ɔ.ʁi.ɲal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,433 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espèce de mammifères de la famille des cervidés (Cervidae). Cousin nord-américain de l’élan européen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for orignal, with forms such as "oirgnal", "orginal", and "origanl". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Original", "oriental", "originel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is orignal, spelled O-R-I-G-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Espèce de mammifères de la famille des cervidés (Cervidae). Cousin nord-américain de l’élan européen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orignal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des jeunes gens du village, très élégants dans leurs pelisses à col de loutre, parlaient avec déférence au vieux Nazaire Larouche, un grand homme gris aux larges épaules osseuses qui n’avait rien changé pour la messe à sa tenue de tous les jours : vêtement court de toile brune doublé de peau de mouton, culottes rapiécées et gros bas de laine gris dans des…
Voilà plus de 40 ans que je chasse annuellement l'orignal, et je viens de découvrir ce que je considère comme la pourvoirie la plus enivrante, belle, agréable... nommez-les.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oirgnal
- orginal
- origanl
- origgnal
- orignall
- orignla
- orignnal
- oringal
- orrignal
- roignal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orignal - 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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).