orme

/\ɔʁm\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#34,228

in French word usage

Misspellings

3

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

orme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares. Pronounced \ɔʁm\. Often confused with ose and ôté.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of orme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for orme is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,228 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for orme, with forms such as "orem", "ormme", and "orrme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ose", "ôté", "ors", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is orme, spelled O-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: orem,ormme,orrme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orme

Misspelling Variants of "orme"

orem4ormme5orrme5
Misspelling Variants of "orme"

Frequency rank: #34,228 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.