ondulatoire
\ɔ̃.dy.la.twaʁ\
The verdict
“ondulatoire” is uncommon French (frequency #68,519 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,519
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est caractérisé par des ondulations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ondulatoire · ondulatoire · French
ondulatoire · rank #68,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,519
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ophelia
Nearest frequency peer: Ophelia (+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 « ondulatoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oisifs
oisifs
31,485 corpus weight
- omettent
omettent
31,484 corpus weight
- ondulatoire
ondulatoire
31,482 corpus weight
- Ophelia
Ophelia
31,481 corpus weight
- oppresse
oppresse
31,480 corpus weight
- oulémas
oulémas
31,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ondulatoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ondulatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.dy.la.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ondulatoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ondulatoire is uncommon French at frequency #68,519 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ̃.dy.la.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est caractérisé par des ondulations.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ondulatoire, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ondulatoire, spelled O-N-D-U-L-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est caractérisé par des ondulations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ondulatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je cherchai donc à me représenter la dualité onde-corpuscule par une image spatiale où le corpuscule serait le centre d’un phénomène ondulatoire étendu.
La balle sort du canon à deux cents kilomètres-heure et, fait particulier, elle adopte dans la partie prolongée du canon un mouvement ondulatoire qui provoque des dégâts considérables en ne laissant presque aucune trace apparente.
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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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