Orville
\ɔʁ.vil\
The verdict
“Orville” is uncommon French (frequency #62,496 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,496
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orville · Orville · French
Orville · rank #62,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornementale
Nearest frequency peer: ornementale (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Orville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orientalist…
orientalistes
37,508 corpus weight
- originaleme…
originalement
37,507 corpus weight
- ornementale
ornementale
37,506 corpus weight
- Orville
Orville
37,505 corpus weight
- Osmond
Osmond
37,504 corpus weight
- osées
osées
37,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Orville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Orville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.vil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Orville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Orville is uncommon French at frequency #62,496 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔʁ.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Orville has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Orville, spelled O-R-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Indre.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
- 5Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de l’Orne intégrée dans la commune de Sap-en-Auge en janvier 2016.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Orville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les phosphates arénacés, ou sables phosphatés, se rencontrent dans des poches à la partie supérieure de la craie à bélemnites, sur la limite des départements de la Somme et du Pas-de-Calais. Les principaux gisements sont à Beauval, Hallencourt et Orville.
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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