ourson
\uʁ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“ourson” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,423
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit de l’ours ou jeune ours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ourson · ourson · French
ourson · rank #25,423 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,423
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orchidées
Nearest frequency peer: orchidées (-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 « ourson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Oleg
Oleg
74,581 corpus weight
- ontariens
ontariens
74,580 corpus weight
- orchidées
orchidées
74,579 corpus weight
- ourson
ourson
74,578 corpus weight
- outré
outré
74,577 corpus weight
- pad
pad
74,576 corpus weight
What this shows « ourson » 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 | ourson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uʁ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ourson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ourson (IPA \uʁ.sɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,423 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ourson, with forms such as "oruson", "ourosn", and "ourrson". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ours", "orion", "orson", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ourson, spelled O-U-R-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit de l’ours ou jeune ours.
- 2Fourrure d’ours.
- 3En chapellerie, variété de taupé à poil long évoquant la fourrure d’ours.
- 4Bonnet à poil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ourson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Aventures d’un ourson russe, par Slivitzki, est l’histoire d’un ourson nommé Michouk.
Un ourson orphelin vient de faire un long trajet. La communauté atikamekw de Manawan qui l'avait adopté vient de le confier au refuge animal Cécropia de Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, en Mauricie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oruson
- ourosn
- ourrson
- oursno
- oursonn
- oursson
- ousron
- uorson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ourson - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).