odorants
\ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“odorants” is uncommon French (frequency #90,982 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,982
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de odorant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-odorants · odorants · French
odorants · rank #90,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,982
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obéissaient
Nearest frequency peer: obéissaient (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « odorants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- niés
niés
9,023 corpus weight
- nourriront
nourriront
9,022 corpus weight
- obéissaient
obéissaient
9,020 corpus weight
- odorants
odorants
9,019 corpus weight
- officers
officers
9,017 corpus weight
- oin
oin
9,015 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « odorants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | odorants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « odorants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
odorants is uncommon French at frequency #90,982 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de odorant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for odorants in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is odorants, spelled O-D-O-R-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de odorant.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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