orthographe

\ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\

/\ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\/ noun

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The verdict

“orthographe” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,862. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,862
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des règles permettant de noter les sons, de transcrire les mots d'une langue au moyen de caractères d'écriture, suivant les formes consacrées par l'usage ; connaissance que l'on a de ces r...

Corpus desk

Index FR-orthographe · orthographe · French

orthographe · rank #6,862 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,862
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH opérer

Nearest frequency peer: opérer (-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 « orthographe »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « orthographe » 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).

orthographe vs orthographes
92% similar

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

Key facts for orthographe
PropertyValue
Headwordorthographe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\
Letters11
Frequency rank#6,862
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orthographe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).orthographese 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 « opérer » (#6,861), « otage » (#6,863), « ong » (#6,860). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « orthographe » est au #6,862. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around orthographe (IPA \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,862 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for orthographe, with forms such as "orhtographe", "orrthographe", and "orthgoraphe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "orthographes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is orthographe, spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble des règles permettant de noter les sons, de transcrire les mots d'une langue au moyen de caractères d'écriture, suivant les formes consacrées par l'usage ; connaissance que l'on a de ces règles.
  2. 2
    Manière d’écrire un mot, considérée correcte ou non.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On a depuis longtemps remarqué avec raison que l’orthographe au moyen-âge était extrêmement variable ; mais on n’a guère pu discerner ce qui tenait à la différence des temps et des lieux ou à l’incertitude même des règles et des procédés.
  2. Depuis Ronsard et Joachim du Bellay les meilleurs esprits trouvent l’orthographe française trop surchargée, sentent le besoin de la simplifier. Voici pourquoi. C’est qu’elle était très simple au XVᵉ siècle, et que les grammairiens du XVIᵉ siècle, par affectation scientifique, par pédantisme, l’avaient grièvement compliquée.

Synonyms

écrituregraphieorthographie

This word in other languages

orthography(English)ortografía(Español)Rechtschreibung(Deutsch)ortografia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orhtographe
  • orrthographe
  • orthgoraphe
  • orthhographe
  • orthogarphe
  • orthoggraphe
  • orthograhpe
  • orthograpeh
  • orthographhe
  • orthograpphe
  • orthogrpahe
  • orthogrraphe
  • orthorgaphe
  • ortohgraphe
  • ortthographe
  • otrhographe
  • rothographe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orthographe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

orhtographe2orrthographe1orthgoraphe2orthhographe1orthogarphe2orthoggraphe1orthograhpe2orthograpeh2
Edit distance from "orthographe"

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 "orthographe"?
"orthographe" is spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\.
What does "orthographe" mean?
As a noun, "orthographe" means: Ensemble des règles permettant de noter les sons, de transcrire les mots d'une langue au moyen de caractères d'écriture, suivant les formes consacrées par l'usage ; connaissance que l'on a de ces r...
What words are commonly confused with "orthographe"?
"orthographe" is commonly confused with "orthographes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "orthographe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "orthographe" is \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "orthographe" come from?
"orthographe" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list