orme

\ɔʁm\

/\ɔʁm\/ noun

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The verdict

“orme” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,228) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#34,228
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.

Corpus desk

Index FR-orme · orme · French

orme · rank #34,228 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,228
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH orgasmes

Nearest frequency peer: orgasmes (-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 « orme »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « orme » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

orme vs ose
50% similar
orme vs ôté
0% similar
orme vs ors
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for orme
PropertyValue
Headwordorme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁm\
Letters4
Frequency rank#34,228
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « orme »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ormese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « orgasmes » (#34,227), « orbe » (#34,226), « ostensiblement » (#34,230). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « orme » est au #34,228. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for orme is neighbouring look-alikes ("ose", "ôté", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔʁm\. Frequency #34,228 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for orme, with forms such as "orem", "ormme", and "orrme". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ors", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is orme, spelled O-R-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how orme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les ormes servent ordinairement à border des routes, des avenues.
  2. On arrive à cet imposant et noble édifice par une immense allée de quatre rangs d’ormes séculaires, ….

This word in other languages

elm(English)olmo(Español)Rüster(Deutsch)olmo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orem
  • ormme
  • orrme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orme - 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.

orem2ormme1orrme1
Edit distance from "orme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "orme"?
"orme" is spelled O-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁm\.
What does "orme" mean?
As a noun, "orme" means: Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.
What words are commonly confused with "orme"?
"orme" is commonly confused with "ose", "ôté", "ors". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "orme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orme" is \ɔʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orme" come from?
"orme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "orme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

orbe#34,226peck#34,243pike#34,250mors#34,201

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list