orbiter
\ɔʁ.bi.te\
The verdict
“orbiter” is uncommon French (frequency #78,702 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,702
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décrire une orbite autour d’un corps principal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orbiter · orbiter · French
orbiter · rank #78,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,702
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OPCA
Nearest frequency peer: OPCA (-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 « orbiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- olin
olin
21,303 corpus weight
- onda
onda
21,302 corpus weight
- Onésime
Onésime
21,301 corpus weight
- OPCA
OPCA
21,300 corpus weight
- orbiter
orbiter
21,299 corpus weight
- oso
oso
21,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orbiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orbiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.bi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orbiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orbiter is uncommon French at frequency #78,702 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔʁ.bi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
orbiter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 orbiter, spelled O-R-B-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Décrire une orbite autour d’un corps principal.
- 2Mettre sur orbite.
- 3Tourner autour d'un objet ou d'une idée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orbiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au siècle suivant, les astronomes ont observé une nouvelle classe d’objets célestes qu’ils ont qualifiés d’« astéroïdes », et non de « planétoïdes », en dépit du fait qu’ils orbitaient autour du Soleil comme les planètes.
La ceinture d’astéroïdes venait de se former. Orbitant d'abord sur des orbites très excentriques, une partie de ces astéroïdes réduisirent ensuite leurs excentricités, […].
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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