offertoire
\ɔ.fɛʁ.twaʁ\
The verdict
“offertoire” is uncommon French (frequency #96,196 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,196
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prière qui, dans la messe, précède immédiatement l’oblation du pain et du vin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-offertoire · offertoire · French
offertoire · rank #96,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,196
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offensantes
Nearest frequency peer: offensantes (-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 « offertoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- NTSC
NTSC
3,809 corpus weight
- octroya
octroya
3,807 corpus weight
- offensantes
offensantes
3,806 corpus weight
- offertoire
offertoire
3,805 corpus weight
- omble
omble
3,803 corpus weight
- Omsk
Omsk
3,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « offertoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « offertoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
offertoire is uncommon French at frequency #96,196 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.fɛʁ.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for offertoire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is offertoire, spelled O-F-F-E-R-T-O-I-R-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how offertoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C'est si beau à l’offertoire quand Michel se tient debout près de l'autel, en robe blanche, balançant un encensoir d'or et avec un tel amas de parfums que l'odeur en monte jusqu'à Dieu ! »
Il achève l’offertoire, et je le vois, debout, qui saisit la patène plaquée contre sa poitrine. Un enfant de chœur lui tend, l'une après l'autre, les burettes, cependant que le prêtre dépose l'hostie sur le corporal.
Synonyms
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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