orthoépie
\ɔʁ.tɔ.e.pi\
The verdict
“orthoépie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de prononcer correctement un mot dans une langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orthoepie · orthoépie · French
orthoépie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orthoépie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.tɔ.e.pi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
orthoépie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.tɔ.e.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for orthoépie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 orthoépie, spelled O-R-T-H-O-É-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manière de prononcer correctement un mot dans une langue.
- 2Étude de la prononciation correcte des mots.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orthoépie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’auteur reconnaît dans toute grammaire moderne six parties : l’orthographe, l’étymologie, la syntaxe, la ponctuation, la prosodie et l’orthoépie (recta dictio), qui n’est autre chose que la prononciation.
L'histoire de cette orthoépie du latin au XVIᵉ siècle est encore mal connue.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.