orageuses
\ɔ.ʁa.ʒøz\
The verdict
“orageuses” is uncommon French (frequency #51,010 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,010
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de orageux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orageuses · orageuses · French
orageuses · rank #51,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,010
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orcs
Nearest frequency peer: orcs (+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 « orageuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- olympiade
olympiade
48,995 corpus weight
- opprimée
opprimée
48,993 corpus weight
- orageuses
orageuses
48,991 corpus weight
- orcs
orcs
48,990 corpus weight
- organisatri…
organisatrices
48,989 corpus weight
- Ossétie
Ossétie
48,988 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orageuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orageuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁa.ʒøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orageuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orageuses is uncommon French at frequency #51,010 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.ʁa.ʒøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de orageux.".
orageuses has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is orageuses, spelled O-R-A-G-E-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de orageux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orageuses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des ondées orageuses touchent les régions méditerranéennes l’après-midi.
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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