ours
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,358
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ours is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plantigrade, carnassier ou omnivore, à fourrure épaisse, de la famille des ursidés. Pronounced \uʁs\. It ranks #4,358 in French word frequency. Often confused with out and oust.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʁs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ours is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \uʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,358 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for ours, with forms such as "orus", "ourrs", and "ourss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "out", "oust", "ouvre", and more, 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 ours, spelled O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plantigrade, carnassier ou omnivore, à fourrure épaisse, de la famille des ursidés.
- 2Homme qui fuit la société, rustre ou rustaud.
- 3Homme porté à suivre ses bas instincts.
- 4Prison.
- 5Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il n’a pas de position particulière, elle doit donc être blasonnée.
- 6Ouvrier typographe.
- 7Ouvrage non imprimé, non publié.
- 8Manuscrit d’auteur, brouillon, canevas d’un texte inachevé qui demande à être révisé.
- 9Premier montage d’un film, reportage ou documentaire.
- 10Dans l’édition, l’imprimerie et la presse, pavé, encadré ou espace qui recense les noms et adresses de l’éditeur et de l’imprimeur, et les fonctions et les noms des collaborateurs ayant participé à la fabrication de l’imprimé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orus,ourrs,ourss,ousr,uors
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ours
Misspelling Variants of "ours"
Frequency rank: #4,358 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our French index: