ouvrage de référence
\u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“ouvrage de référence” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Recueil d’informations classées qui n’est pas destiné à être lu de la première à la dernière page, mais consulté par rubriques, articles ou entrées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrage de référence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrage de référence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrage de référence is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁaʒ də ʁe.fe.ʁɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ouvrage de référence, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ouvrage de référence, spelled O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Recueil d’informations classées qui n’est pas destiné à être lu de la première à la dernière page, mais consulté par rubriques, articles ou entrées.
- 2Ouvrage qui sert de référentiel dans un domaine de la connaissance, qui est populaire sans être une somme de connaissances.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ouvrage de référence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-A-G-E- -D-E- -R-É-F-É-R-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.