ors
\ɔʁ\
The verdict
“ors” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,509) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,509
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ors · ors · French
ors · rank #32,509 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,509
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH organiste
Nearest frequency peer: organiste (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ors »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- occasionné
occasionné
67,496 corpus weight
- ops
ops
67,495 corpus weight
- organiste
organiste
67,493 corpus weight
- ors
ors
67,492 corpus weight
- osons
osons
67,491 corpus weight
- outsider
outsider
67,489 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ors » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ors |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ors »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ors is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "os", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔʁ\. Frequency #32,509 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de or.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ors, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "os", "ow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ors, spelled O-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de or.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est lui qui, avec le secours des ors dont les lueurs cerclent les têtes, courent ou se tortillent sur les bures noires des moines, […].
Puisque j’étais bien en avance, je décidai d’aller faire un tour, pendant que j’y étais, jusqu’à la tombe du grand savant Bioduret Joseph qui se trouvait dans les caves mêmes de l’Institut parmi les ors et les marbres.
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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