Which to use
“orque” and “orques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,932
- “orque” frequency rank
- #32,943
- “orques” frequency rank
- 79875
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | orque | orques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Espèce de grand cétacé à dents à livrée noire et blanche et à nageoire dorsale très haute. | Pluriel de orque. |
Same sound, different letters: orque vs orques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: orque vs orques
This is the hard kind. orque and orques are pronounced identically (\ɔʁk\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “orque” sits inside “orques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
orque is recorded at frequency rank #46,932, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔʁk\. orques is at rank #32,943, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔʁk\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 79875, this pair ranks #22,266 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of orque vs orques
Shared letters: eoqru. Private to "orque": -. Private to "orques": s.
"orque" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV · "orques" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "orque" and "orques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "orque" vs "orques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"orque" and "orques" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "orque" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "orques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #22,266 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "orque" and "orques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "orme vs orque". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #22,266 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.