orbitaire
\ɔʁ.bi.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“orbitaire” is uncommon French (frequency #97,233 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,233
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’orbite de l’œil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orbitaire · orbitaire · French
orbitaire · rank #97,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,233
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ombelles
Nearest frequency peer: ombelles (-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 « orbitaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Oldenburg
Oldenburg
2,771 corpus weight
- oliphant
oliphant
2,770 corpus weight
- ombelles
ombelles
2,769 corpus weight
- orbitaire
orbitaire
2,768 corpus weight
- orca
orca
2,767 corpus weight
- ORF
ORF
2,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orbitaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orbitaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.bi.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orbitaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orbitaire is uncommon French at frequency #97,233 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔʁ.bi.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à l’orbite de l’œil.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for orbitaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 orbitaire, spelled O-R-B-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’orbite de l’œil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orbitaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Artère orbitaire.
Loges orbitaires.
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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