Ourcq
\uʁk\
The verdict
“Ourcq” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,612
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière française, affluent de la Marne, longue de 87 kilomètres, elle prend sa source au-dessus de Fère-en-Tardenois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ourcq · Ourcq · French
Ourcq · rank #44,612 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,612
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oreillettes
Nearest frequency peer: oreillettes (-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 « Ourcq »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- omni
omni
55,392 corpus weight
- omniprésents
omniprésents
55,391 corpus weight
- oreillettes
oreillettes
55,390 corpus weight
- Ourcq
Ourcq
55,389 corpus weight
- outside
outside
55,388 corpus weight
- paniquée
paniquée
55,387 corpus weight
What this shows « Ourcq » 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 | Ourcq |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \uʁk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ourcq »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ourcq (IPA \uʁk\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,612 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ourcq, with forms such as "orucq", "oucrq", and "ourccq". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ours", "ourse", "our", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ourcq, spelled O-U-R-C-Q.
Definition
- 1Rivière française, affluent de la Marne, longue de 87 kilomètres, elle prend sa source au-dessus de Fère-en-Tardenois.
- 2Partie canalisée de la rivière de l'Ourcq.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ourcq appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dérivation de la rivière de l’Ourcq , ordonnée par le Gouvernement , promet à notre capitale des avantages multipliés dont on ne peut se faire une juste idée que par l’usage.
Et ça mange comme les Irlandais des pommes de terre, mais frites dans de la graisse de rat, du pain cinq fois la semaine, ça boit de l’eau de l’Ourcq aux tuyaux de la Ville, parce que l’eau de la Seine est trop chère ; et ça ne peut pas avoir d’établissement à son compte, faute de six ou sept mille francs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orucq
- oucrq
- ourccq
- ourcqq
- ourqc
- ourrcq
- uorcq
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ourcq - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).