orphelinat
\ɔʁ.fə.li.na\
The verdict
“orphelinat” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,220
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement charitable destiné à élever des orphelins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orphelinat · orphelinat · French
orphelinat · rank #20,220 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,220
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH onglet
Nearest frequency peer: onglet (-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 « orphelinat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Oklahoma
Oklahoma
79,784 corpus weight
- Olga
Olga
79,783 corpus weight
- onglet
onglet
79,782 corpus weight
- orphelinat
orphelinat
79,781 corpus weight
- OSEF
OSEF
79,780 corpus weight
- OVNI
OVNI
79,779 corpus weight
What this shows « orphelinat » 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 | orphelinat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.fə.li.na\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orphelinat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around orphelinat (IPA \ɔʁ.fə.li.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,220 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établissement charitable destiné à élever des orphelins.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for orphelinat, with forms such as "oprhelinat", "orhpelinat", and "orpehlinat". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "orphelins", "orpheline", "orphelines", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 orphelinat, spelled O-R-P-H-E-L-I-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Établissement charitable destiné à élever des orphelins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orphelinat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’orphelinat, elle avait appris à coudre, à faire le ménage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprhelinat
- orhpelinat
- orpehlinat
- orpheilnat
- orpheliant
- orphelinatt
- orphelinnat
- orphelinta
- orphellinat
- orphelniat
- orphhelinat
- orphleinat
- orpphelinat
- orrphelinat
- rophelinat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orphelinat - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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