œuvres

/\œvʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,021

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

œuvres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de œuvre (nom féminin). Pronounced \œvʁ\. It ranks #2,021 in French word frequency. Often confused with Uzès and urs.

Key facts for œuvres
PropertyValue
Headwordœuvres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\œvʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,021
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of œuvres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for œuvres is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \œvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,021 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de œuvre (nom féminin).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for œuvres, with forms such as "uœvres", "œurves", and "œuvers". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Uzès", "urs", "œuvre", 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 œuvres, spelled Œ-U-V-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de œuvre (nom féminin).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: uœvres,œurves,œuvers,œuvress,œuvrres,œuvrse,œuvvres,œvures

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for œuvres

Misspelling Variants of "œuvres"

uœvres6œurves6œuvers6œuvress7œuvrres7œuvrse6œuvvres7œvures6
Misspelling Variants of "œuvres"

Frequency rank: #2,021 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "œuvres"?
"œuvres" is spelled Œ-U-V-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \œvʁ\.
What does "œuvres" mean?
As a noun, "œuvres" means: Pluriel de œuvre (nom féminin).
What words are commonly confused with "œuvres"?
"œuvres" is commonly confused with "Uzès", "urs", "œuvre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "œuvres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "œuvres" is \œvʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "œuvres" come from?
"œuvres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.