oratorio
\ɔ.ʁa.tɔ.ʁjo\
The verdict
“oratorio” is uncommon French (frequency #59,501 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,501
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musique lyrique destinée à être exécutée, sans décors ni costumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oratorio · oratorio · French
oratorio · rank #59,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opta
Nearest frequency peer: opta (-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 « oratorio »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Oppo
Oppo
40,503 corpus weight
- oppressante
oppressante
40,502 corpus weight
- opta
opta
40,501 corpus weight
- oratorio
oratorio
40,500 corpus weight
- orbes
orbes
40,499 corpus weight
- orc
orc
40,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oratorio » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oratorio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁa.tɔ.ʁjo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oratorio » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oratorio is uncommon French at frequency #59,501 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.ʁa.tɔ.ʁjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Musique lyrique destinée à être exécutée, sans décors ni costumes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for oratorio in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oratorio, spelled O-R-A-T-O-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Musique lyrique destinée à être exécutée, sans décors ni costumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oratorio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec ses 650 enfants et jeunes adultes âgés e 5 à 25 ans, cette maîtrise s’est muée, sous la direction artistique et pédagogique de Gaël Darchen, en un instrument unique aux multiples facettes : de rôles solistes sur les scènes lyriques aux grands chœurs d’oratorios, aucun domaine vocal ne se refuse à elle.
— C’est la nouvelle pharmacienne, annonça le contrôleur, d’une voix sans timbre, comme celle des récitants qui vous apprennent, dans les oratorios, que la Samaritaine est à vingt pas, à dix pas, qu’elle arrive.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).