modus operandi
\mɔ.du.s‿ɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“modus operandi” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Façon de faire une chose, manière d’opérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modus-operandi · modus operandi · French
modus operandi · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | modus operandi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.du.s‿ɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
modus operandi is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.du.s‿ɔ.pe.ʁɑ̃.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Façon de faire une chose, manière d’opérer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for modus operandi in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is modus operandi, spelled M-O-D-U-S- -O-P-E-R-A-N-D-I.
Definition
- 1Façon de faire une chose, manière d’opérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modus operandi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« […] Jusqu’ici tout est clair autour de moi ; — il n’y a pas de nuages derrière lesquels puisse se cacher le secret, le grand secret du modus operandi de la gravitation ; — mais ce secret est quelque part aux environs, très-certainement, et n’y eût-il qu’un seul nuage en vue, je serais tenu de soupçonner ce nuage. »
Le Royaume-Uni accuse la Russie d’avoir commandité cette tentative d’assassinat, dont le modus operandi porte la signature de Moscou.
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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.