ondulant
\ɔ̃.dy.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“ondulant” is uncommon French (frequency #84,119 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,119
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ondule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ondulant · ondulant · French
ondulant · rank #84,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,119
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH omnipotence
Nearest frequency peer: omnipotence (-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 « ondulant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obstétricie…
obstétriciens
15,886 corpus weight
- offrirons
offrirons
15,885 corpus weight
- omnipotence
omnipotence
15,883 corpus weight
- ondulant
ondulant
15,882 corpus weight
- onirisme
onirisme
15,881 corpus weight
- oratoriens
oratoriens
15,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ondulant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ondulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.dy.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ondulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ondulant is uncommon French at frequency #84,119 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ̃.dy.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ondule.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ondulant, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ondulant, spelled O-N-D-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ondule.
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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