orpheline
French, adjective/ɔʁ.fə.lin/
orpheline is spelled O-R-P-H-E-L-I-N-E (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orpheline is a French feminine adjective meaning “feminine singular of orphelin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does orpheline mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of orphelin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enfant qui a perdu son père et sa mère. 2. Se dit des choses seules, isolées, esseulées. 3. Première ligne d’un paragraphe se trouvant seule au bas d’une page, le reste du paragraphe se trouvant sur la page suivante. 4. Chaussette dont on n’a pas trouvé la « jumelle ».
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of orpheline
- orphelines plural
- orphelin masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orpheline?
- /ɔʁ.fə.lin/
- \ɔʁ.fə.lin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to orpheline
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orpheline in French?
orpheline appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).