ORL
\o.ɛ.ʁ‿ɛl\
The verdict
“ORL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,465) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,465
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin spécialiste des affections du nez, de la gorge et des oreilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orl · ORL · French
ORL · rank #38,465 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,465
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH organisationn…
Nearest frequency peer: organisationnelle (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ORL »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Oléron
Oléron
61,539 corpus weight
- opulence
opulence
61,538 corpus weight
- organisatio…
organisationnelle
61,537 corpus weight
- ORL
ORL
61,536 corpus weight
- orléanais
orléanais
61,535 corpus weight
- oum
oum
61,534 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ORL » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ORL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ɛ.ʁ‿ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ORL »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ORL is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "os", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \o.ɛ.ʁ‿ɛl\. Frequency #38,465 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Médecin spécialiste des affections du nez, de la gorge et des oreilles.".
ORL has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "os", "ow", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ORL, spelled O-R-L.
Definition
- 1Médecin spécialiste des affections du nez, de la gorge et des oreilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ORL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On apporte le brin d’ADN qui dysfonctionne dans la cellule cible, explique Natalie Loundon, praticien hospitalier ORL et responsable de l’unité plateforme de la recherche en audiologie à l’hôpital pour enfants Necker et qui travaille sur cet essai.
This word in other languages
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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