orthographe
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,862
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
orthographe is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\. It ranks #6,862 in French word frequency. Often confused with orthographes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orthographe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for orthographe is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.to.ɡʁaf\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,862 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for orthographe, with forms such as "orhtographe", "orrthographe", and "orthgoraphe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "orthographes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is orthographe, spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble 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.
- 2Manière d’écrire un mot, considérée correcte ou non.
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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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orthographe
Misspelling Variants of "orthographe"
Frequency rank: #6,862 in French
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