nombre ordinal

/\nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

nombre ordinal is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mot exprimant la position relative d’un élément dans une séquence. Pronounced \nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\.

Key facts for nombre ordinal
PropertyValue
Headwordnombre ordinal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nombre ordinal is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nombre ordinal is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mot exprimant la position relative d’un élément dans une séquence.".

No misspelling variants are generated for nombre ordinal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 nombre ordinal, spelled N-O-M-B-R-E- -O-R-D-I-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot exprimant la position relative d’un élément dans une séquence.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nombre ordinal"?
"nombre ordinal" is spelled N-O-M-B-R-E- -O-R-D-I-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\.
What does "nombre ordinal" mean?
As a noun, "nombre ordinal" means: Mot exprimant la position relative d’un élément dans une séquence.
How do you pronounce "nombre ordinal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nombre ordinal" is \nɔ̃bʁ ɔʁ.di.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nombre ordinal" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.