ordinary
\ˈɔɹd.ˌnɛɹ.i\
The verdict
“ordinary” is uncommon French (frequency #70,078 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,078
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordinaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ordinary · ordinary · French
ordinary · rank #70,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,078
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Orbigny
Nearest frequency peer: Orbigny (-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 « ordinary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- officinale
officinale
29,927 corpus weight
- olfactives
olfactives
29,925 corpus weight
- Orbigny
Orbigny
29,924 corpus weight
- ordinary
ordinary
29,923 corpus weight
- Organ
Organ
29,922 corpus weight
- ornait
ornait
29,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ordinary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordinary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɔɹd.ˌnɛɹ.i\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ordinary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ordinary is uncommon French at frequency #70,078 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɔɹd.ˌnɛɹ.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ordinary doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is ordinary, spelled O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ordinaire.
- 2Quelconque.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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