ordonnancer
French, verb/ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃.se/
ordonnancer is spelled O-R-D-O-N-N-A-N-C-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ordonnancer is a French verb meaning “to authorize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Inscrire au bas d’un état, d’un mémoire, l’ordre d’en payer le montant”.
What does ordonnancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to authorize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Inscrire au bas d’un état, d’un mémoire, l’ordre d’en payer le montant. 2. Organiser selon un certain ordre, certains critères. 3. imposer pour un ensemble de bâtiments une architecture unique et harmonieuse des façades, en laissant libre la composition intérieure des édifices.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ordonnancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ordonnançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ordonnancé participle past
- ordonnance first-person indicative present
- ordonnances indicative present second-person
- ordonnançons first-person indicative plural
- ordonnancez indicative plural present
- ordonnancent indicative plural present
- ordonnançais first-person imperfect indicative
- ordonnançait imperfect indicative singular
- ordonnancions first-person imperfect indicative
- ordonnanciez imperfect indicative plural
- ordonnançaient imperfect indicative plural
- ordonnançai first-person historic indicative
- ordonnanças historic indicative past
- ordonnança historic indicative past
- ordonnançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ordonnancer?
- /ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃.se/
- \ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃.se\
- [ɔʁ.dɔ.nɑ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ordonnancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ordonnancer in French?
ordonnancer appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).