ordonnait
\ɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“ordonnait” is uncommon French (frequency #56,798 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,798
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ordonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ordonnait · ordonnait · French
ordonnait · rank #56,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,798
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opprime
Nearest frequency peer: opprime (-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 « ordonnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- omniprésent…
omniprésentes
43,206 corpus weight
- opposante
opposante
43,205 corpus weight
- opprime
opprime
43,204 corpus weight
- ordonnait
ordonnait
43,203 corpus weight
- ordonnez
ordonnez
43,202 corpus weight
- ory
ory
43,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ordonnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordonnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ordonnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ordonnait is uncommon French at frequency #56,798 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔʁ.dɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ordonner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ordonnait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ordonnait, spelled O-R-D-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ordonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ordonnait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle le ouatait, l’embéguinait, le médicinait ; elle l’empâtait de mets choisis comme un bichon de marquise, elle lui ordonnait ou lui défendait tel ou tel aliment ; elle lui brodait des gilets, des bouts de cravates et des mouchoirs ; elle avait fini par l’habituer à porter de si jolies choses qu’elle le métamorphosait en une sorte d’idole japonaise.
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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