ovule
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,625
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
ovule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gamète femelle haploïde produit par l’ovaire, susceptible de fusionner avec un spermatozoïde lors de la fécondation pour former un zygote, puis le fœtus. Pronounced \ɔ.vyl\. Often confused with ovules and olé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ovule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.vyl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ovule is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.vyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,625 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ovule, with forms such as "ouvle", "ovlue", and "ovuel". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ovules", "olé", "ouïe", 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 ovule, spelled O-V-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gamète femelle haploïde produit par l’ovaire, susceptible de fusionner avec un spermatozoïde lors de la fécondation pour former un zygote, puis le fœtus.
- 2Structure diploïde des plantes à graines (spermatophytes), issue du sporophyte, qui renferme le gamétophyte femelle haploïde. Ce dernier produit l’oosphère, destinée à être fécondée ; après fécondation, l’ovule se transforme en graine.
- 3Médicament solide, souvent de forme ovoïde, destiné à être appliqué par insertion dans le vagin ; aussi appelé « ovule gynécologique » ou « suppositoire vaginal ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ouvle,ovlue,ovuel,ovulle,ovvule,voule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ovule
Misspelling Variants of "ovule"
Frequency rank: #35,625 in French
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