d’ordinaire
\d‿ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“d’ordinaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habituellement ; le plus souvent.
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Index FR-d-ordinaire · d’ordinaire · French
d’ordinaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | d’ordinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \d‿ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
d’ordinaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \d‿ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habituellement ; le plus souvent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for d’ordinaire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is d’ordinaire, spelled D-’-O-R-D-I-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Habituellement ; le plus souvent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how d’ordinaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, si les armées des rois mérovingiens étaient d’ordinaire sans discipline, celle-là passait en turbulence farouche tout ce qu’on avait vu depuis l’époque des grandes invasions.
Je savais que les carpes se tiennent d’ordinaire au fond, c’était donc là qu’il fallait aller les chercher ; […].
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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.