orque

\ɔʁk\

/\ɔʁk\/ noun

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The verdict

“orque” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,932
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de grand cétacé à dents à livrée noire et blanche et à nageoire dorsale très haute.

Corpus desk

Index FR-orque · orque · French

orque · rank #46,932 · 5 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,932
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH osant

Nearest frequency peer: osant (+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 « orque »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « orque » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

orque vs orques
83% similar
orque vs orge
60% similar
orque vs orne
60% similar

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

Key facts for orque
PropertyValue
Headwordorque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁk\
Letters5
Frequency rank#46,932
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orque »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).orquese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « osant » (#46,933), « Olympus » (#46,930), « OSCE » (#46,934). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « orque » est au #46,932. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around orque (IPA \ɔʁk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,932 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espèce de grand cétacé à dents à livrée noire et blanche et à nageoire dorsale très haute.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for orque, with forms such as "oqrue", "orqeu", and "orqque". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "orques", "orge", "orne", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is orque, spelled O-R-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de grand cétacé à dents à livrée noire et blanche et à nageoire dorsale très haute.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tout se passa bien ; l’officier de quart n’eut pas le loisir de s’ennuyer : le service l’absorbait et un grand nombre de baleines venaient lui faire visite. Pendant mon quart, un orque passa, avec une grande rapidité, à une très courte distance de la Belgica.
  2. À l’exception d’un Mouton, qui provient des pâturages du mont Pico, et d'une Orque, harponnée en Méditerranée, les autres matériaux d'étude ont été recueillis en plein Atlantique, quelquefois à 1,800 mètres de profondeur.

Synonyms

épaulardorque épaulardbaleine tueuse

This word in other languages

killer whale(English)orca(Español)Schwertwal(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oqrue
  • orqeu
  • orqque
  • orrque
  • oruqe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

oqrue2orqeu2orqque1orrque1oruqe2
Edit distance from "orque"

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 "orque"?
"orque" is spelled O-R-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁk\.
What does "orque" mean?
As a noun, "orque" means: Espèce de grand cétacé à dents à livrée noire et blanche et à nageoire dorsale très haute.
What words are commonly confused with "orque"?
"orque" is commonly confused with "orques", "orge", "orne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "orque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orque" is \ɔʁk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orque" come from?
"orque" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

osant#46,933Oujda#46,935noëls#46,917perfs#46,951

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

OSCE5 variantsnenni5 variantsnara5 variantslips5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list