orr
\or\
The verdict
“orr” is uncommon French (frequency #58,808 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,808
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nez.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orr · orr · French
orr · rank #58,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,808
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orchestrer
Nearest frequency peer: orchestrer (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « orr »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- optimisés
optimisés
41,195 corpus weight
- orchestrer
orchestrer
41,194 corpus weight
- orr
orr
41,193 corpus weight
- Othman
Othman
41,192 corpus weight
- outer
outer
41,191 corpus weight
- P5
P5
41,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orr » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \or\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orr » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orr is uncommon French at frequency #58,808 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \or\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nez.".
Zero misspellings are on record for orr in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is orr, spelled O-R-R.
Definition
- 1Nez.
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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