orbitales
\ɔʁ.bi.tal\
The verdict
“orbitales” is uncommon French (frequency #66,180 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,180
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de orbital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orbitales · orbitales · French
orbitales · rank #66,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,180
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orbis
Nearest frequency peer: orbis (-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 « orbitales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oppressif
oppressif
33,824 corpus weight
- orbis
orbis
33,822 corpus weight
- orbitales
orbitales
33,821 corpus weight
- orchestrale
orchestrale
33,820 corpus weight
- oren
oren
33,819 corpus weight
- Oriane
Oriane
33,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orbitales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orbitales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.bi.tal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orbitales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orbitales is uncommon French at frequency #66,180 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔʁ.bi.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de orbital.".
orbitales has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 orbitales, spelled O-R-B-I-T-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de orbital.
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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