Orbit
\ˈɔʁbɪt\
The verdict
“Orbit” is uncommon French (frequency #81,409 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,409
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orbite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orbit · Orbit · French
Orbit · rank #81,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,409
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OPJ
Nearest frequency peer: OPJ (-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 « Orbit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- olmo
olmo
18,596 corpus weight
- onanisme
onanisme
18,595 corpus weight
- OPJ
OPJ
18,593 corpus weight
- Orbit
Orbit
18,592 corpus weight
- ordinations
ordinations
18,591 corpus weight
- osselets
osselets
18,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Orbit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Orbit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɔʁbɪt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Orbit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Orbit is uncommon French at frequency #81,409 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɔʁbɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orbite.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Orbit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Orbit, spelled O-R-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Orbite.
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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