extraordinaire
Letters
14 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,256
in French word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
extraordinaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas selon l’usage ordinaire, selon l’ordre commun, qui est au-dessus de l’ordinaire. Pronounced \ɛk.stʁa.ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. It ranks #3,256 in French word frequency. Often confused with extraordinaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraordinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁa.ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #3,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for extraordinaire is 14 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.stʁa.ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,256 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for extraordinaire, with forms such as "etxraordinaire", "exrtaordinaire", and "extarordinaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "extraordinaires", 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 extraordinaire, spelled E-X-T-R-A-O-R-D-I-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas selon l’usage ordinaire, selon l’ordre commun, qui est au-dessus de l’ordinaire.
- 2Qualifie la personne qu’un gouvernement envoie pour traiter et négocier une affaire particulière et importante, ou seulement à l’occasion de quelque cérémonie.
- 3Qui dépasse, en valeur, l’ordinaire ou l'ordre des choses.
- 4Qualifiait un conseiller d’état qui ne remplissait pas les fonctions ordinaires au conseil et ne touchait pas le traitement de conseiller, mais qui représentait dans les débats un service public.
- 5Qualifiait autrefois la procédure criminelle, par opposition à la procédure civile.
- 6Qui est singulier, rare, peu commun.
- 7Qui choque par sa bizarrerie, son extravagance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etxraordinaire,exrtaordinaire,extarordinaire,extraodrinaire,extraorddinaire,extraordianire,extraordinaier,extraordinairre,extraordinarie,extraordiniare,extraordinnaire,extraordniaire,extraoridnaire,extraorrdinaire,extrarodinaire,extroardinaire,extrraordinaire,exttraordinaire,exxtraordinaire,xetraordinaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for extraordinaire
Misspelling Variants of "extraordinaire"
Frequency rank: #3,256 in French
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