œuvre d’art
\œ.vʁə d‿aʁ\
The verdict
“œuvre d’art” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Œuvre dont les qualités artistiques sont reconnues comme telles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | œuvre d’art |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \œ.vʁə d‿aʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “œuvre d’art” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for œuvre d’art is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œ.vʁə d‿aʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Œuvre dont les qualités artistiques sont reconnues comme telles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for œuvre d’art in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is œuvre d’art, spelled Œ-U-V-R-E- -D-’-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Œuvre dont les qualités artistiques sont reconnues comme telles.
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 “œuvre d’art”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Œ-U-V-R-E- -D-’-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \œ.vʁə d‿aʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.