ornement
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,358
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ornement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui sert à orner, à embellir. Pronounced \ɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Often confused with ornent and ornements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ornement is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,358 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ornement, with forms such as "onrement", "orenment", and "orneemnt". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ornent", "ornements", "oralement", 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 ornement, spelled O-R-N-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert à orner, à embellir.
- 2Parure.
- 3Figure, forme de style dont on se sert pour embellir le discours.
- 4Figure de fantaisie, comme fleuron, rosace, feston, que différents arts ou métiers emploient comme embellissements.
- 5Sculpture, moulure, qui sert à décorer les différentes parties d’un bâtiment ou d’une boiserie.
- 6Peintures faites, dans une galerie, pour servir d’accompagnement au sujet principal et qui n’en font point partie.
- 7Ce qui sert à faire honneur, à donner du lustre à un pays, à un siècle, à une famille, etc.
- 8Pièce d’une même couleur ou d’une même parure, faisant un assortiment entier, dans lequel les habits sacerdotaux et les devants d’autel sont compris.
- 9Ensemble des habits sacerdotaux, comme la chasuble, l’étole, etc., dont les prêtres se servent pour les offices dans le culte catholique.
- 10Notes secondaires utilisées pour embellir une ligne mélodique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: onrement,orenment,orneemnt,ornemennt,ornementt,ornemetn,ornemment,ornemnet,ornmeent,ornnement,orrnement,ronement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ornement
Misspelling Variants of "ornement"
Frequency rank: #19,358 in French
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