ordinaire
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,629
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ordinaire is anFrenchadj. It means: Commun ; habituel. Pronounced \ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. It ranks #3,629 in French word frequency. Often confused with originaire and ordinaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ordinaire is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,629 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ordinaire, with forms such as "odrinaire", "orddinaire", and "ordianire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "originaire", "ordinaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ordinaire, spelled O-R-D-I-N-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commun ; habituel.
- 2Qui est habituel à quelqu’un.
- 3Qui ne dépasse pas le niveau commun.
- 4Médiocre, dont les manières laissent à désirer.
- 5Il s’est dit des officiers de la maison du roi, qui remplissaient leurs fonctions toute l’année, par opposition à ceux qui servaient par quartier. Il s’est dit aussi de quelques autres serviteurs habituels de la maison du roi, quoiqu’ils ne servissent que par quartier.
- 6Malpoli, discourtois, peu aimable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: odrinaire,orddinaire,ordianire,ordinaier,ordinairre,ordinarie,ordiniare,ordinnaire,ordniaire,oridnaire,orrdinaire,rodinaire
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Misspelling Variants of "ordinaire"
Frequency rank: #3,629 in French
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