officinalis
The verdict
“officinalis” is uncommon French (frequency #77,758 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,758
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-officinalis · officinalis · French
officinalis · rank #77,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,758
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opossum
Nearest frequency peer: opossum (+2 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 « officinalis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- névrotique
névrotique
22,248 corpus weight
- Ockham
Ockham
22,246 corpus weight
- officinalis
officinalis
22,243 corpus weight
- opossum
opossum
22,241 corpus weight
- orchestral
orchestral
22,240 corpus weight
- orienta
orienta
22,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « officinalis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | officinalis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « officinalis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
officinalis is uncommon French at frequency #77,758 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Officinal.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for officinalis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is officinalis, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-N-A-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Officinal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how officinalis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Levisticum officinale.
Sisymbrion officinalis.
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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