ouvrir
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,186
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
ouvrir is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire que ce qui était clos, fermé, ne le soit plus. Pronounced \u.vʁiʁ\. It ranks #1,186 in French word frequency. Often confused with ouvrira and ouvrirent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrir is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,186 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ouvrir, with forms such as "ourvir", "ouvirr", and "ouvrirr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ouvrira", "ouvrirent", "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 ouvrir, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire que ce qui était clos, fermé, ne le soit plus.
- 2Donner accès — Note d’usage : Il est alors suivi d’un adverbe de lieu.
- 3Accueillir dans, recevoir dans.
- 4Écarter ce qui est replié, ce qui est joint ; déployer.
- 5Entamer, fendre, couper ou percer quelque chose.
- 6Pratiquer une ouverture, une percée.
- 7Commencer à creuser, à fouiller.
- 8ou Rendre une chose accessible, en faciliter l’abord, le passage, l’occupation.
- 9Commencer ; mettre en route ; débuter.
- 10Se confier à quelqu’un, lui déclarer ce qu’on pense sur quelque chose.
- 11Devenir ou être ouvert.
- 12Avoir son issue ou son débouché.
- 13Se blesser.
- 14Éclore, en parlant d'une fleur ou d'un bourgeon.
- 15Diminuer le couvert et, ce faisant, augmenter la quantité de lumière atteignant le sol et les troncs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ourvir,ouvirr,ouvrirr,ouvrri,ouvrrir,ouvvrir,ovurir,uovrir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ouvrir
Misspelling Variants of "ouvrir"
Frequency rank: #1,186 in French
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