ordinateur portable
\ɔʁ.di.na.tœʁ pɔʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“ordinateur portable” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ordinateur d'une taille réduite, disposant d'un écran et d'un clavier intégrés ainsi que d'une certaine autonomie sur batterie, conçu pour être facilement transportable et utilisable en différents ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordinateur portable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.di.na.tœʁ pɔʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ordinateur portable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ordinateur portable is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.di.na.tœʁ pɔʁ.tabl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ordinateur d'une taille réduite, disposant d'un écran et d'un clavier intégrés ainsi que d'une certaine autonomie sur batterie, conçu pour être facilement transportable et utilisable en différents ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ordinateur portable in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ordinateur portable, spelled O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E-U-R- -P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ordinateur d'une taille réduite, disposant d'un écran et d'un clavier intégrés ainsi que d'une certaine autonomie sur batterie, conçu pour être facilement transportable et utilisable en différents endroits.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-R-D-I-N-A-T-E-U-R- -P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.