adornement
\a.dɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“adornement” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui sert à adorner, à embellir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adornement · adornement · French
adornement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adornement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adornement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adornement is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.dɔʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adornement, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is adornement, spelled A-D-O-R-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert à adorner, à embellir.
- 2Ce qui sert à faire honneur, à donner du lustre à un pays, à un siècle, à une famille, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adornement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fantasme est un fantasme “d’adornement”, autrement dit, pour le psychanalysant : comment “s’adorner” l’objet partiel et faire que l’autre en soit privé ; mais si l’autre en est privé, c’est qu’il en est possesseur.
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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.