orton
\ˈor.ton\
The verdict
“orton” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,696
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusatif singulier de orto.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orton · orton · French
orton · rank #48,696 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,696
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oreillons
Nearest frequency peer: oreillons (-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 « orton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- offrirai
offrirai
51,308 corpus weight
- oim
oim
51,307 corpus weight
- oreillons
oreillons
51,306 corpus weight
- orton
orton
51,305 corpus weight
- ouvrirent
ouvrirent
51,304 corpus weight
- paddle
paddle
51,302 corpus weight
What this shows « orton » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | orton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈor.ton\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around orton (IPA \ˈor.ton\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,696 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Accusatif singulier de orto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for orton, with forms such as "orotn", "orrton", and "ortno". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "OTAN", "otto", "Othon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is orton, spelled O-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Accusatif singulier de orto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orotn
- orrton
- ortno
- ortonn
- ortton
- otron
- roton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orton - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).