ordinal
\ɔʁ.di.nal\
The verdict
“ordinal” is uncommon French (frequency #86,987 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,987
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit en général d'un nombre lorsqu'il ne sert qu'à indiquer une position ou un rang, dans une série.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ordinal · ordinal · French
ordinal · rank #86,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,987
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OQTF
Nearest frequency peer: OQTF (-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 « ordinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- onusien
onusien
13,017 corpus weight
- OQTF
OQTF
13,015 corpus weight
- ordinal
ordinal
13,014 corpus weight
- ordurier
ordurier
13,013 corpus weight
- orta
orta
13,012 corpus weight
- orthodontie
orthodontie
13,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ordinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.di.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ordinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ordinal is uncommon French at frequency #86,987 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔʁ.di.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ordinal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ordinal, spelled O-R-D-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Se dit en général d'un nombre lorsqu'il ne sert qu'à indiquer une position ou un rang, dans une série.
- 2Désigne un adjectif ou un adverbe qui sert à indiquer l’ordre dans lequel sont rangées les choses.
- 3Qualifie un ensemble transitif qui est bien ordonné par la relation d’appartenance.
- 4Qui concerne un ordre professionnel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ordinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la suite notée x(n), des nombres calculés en fonction de la suite des nombres entiers représentée par n, n est considéré comme ordinal, il permet seulement de ranger les termes de la suite.
« Premier » et « deuxième » sont des mots ordinaux.
Antonyms
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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