offertoire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#96,196
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
offertoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prière qui, dans la messe, précède immédiatement l’oblation du pain et du vin. Pronounced \ɔ.fɛʁ.twaʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offertoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fɛʁ.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for offertoire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.fɛʁ.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #96,196 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for offertoire 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 offertoire, spelled O-F-F-E-R-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prière qui, dans la messe, précède immédiatement l’oblation du pain et du vin.
- 2Partie de la messe dans laquelle le prêtre offre à Dieu le pain et le vin avant de les consacrer.
- 3Morceau de musique exécuté dans l’intervalle qui se trouve entre le Credo et le Sanctus.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #96,196 in French
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