œuvre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#764
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
œuvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet créé par un être vivant, manifestation tangible d’une pensée, même infime, réalisation d’un produit, fonctionnel ou non. Pronounced \œvʁ\. It ranks #764 in French word frequency. Often confused with œuvres and œuvrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œuvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œvʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for œuvre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #764 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 œuvre, with forms such as "uœvre", "œurve", and "œuver". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "œuvres", "œuvrer", "œuvrent", 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 œuvre, spelled Œ-U-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet créé par un être vivant, manifestation tangible d’une pensée, même infime, réalisation d’un produit, fonctionnel ou non.
- 2Production littéraire, artistique ou intellectuelle.
- 3Production littéraire, artistique ou intellectuelle.
- 4Action productive des hommes ; ouvrage ; travail.
- 5Résultat d’un processus, en particulier un résultat bénéfique d’un phénomène naturel.
- 6Actions humaines jugées du point de vue de la religion.
- 7Organisation charitable.
- 8Chaton dans lequel une pierre est sertie.
- 9Fabrique d’une paroisse, revenu affecté à la construction et à la réparation des bâtiments, à l’achat et à l’entretien des choses nécessaires au service divin.
- 10Ancienne mesure de surface agricole utilisée pour les vignes, elle équivaut 570 m².
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: uœvre,œurve,œuver,œuvrre,œuvvre,œvure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for œuvre
Misspelling Variants of "œuvre"
Frequency rank: #764 in French
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