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ordonné

French, adjective

ordonné is spelled O-R-D-O-N-N-É (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,439th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ordonné is a French adjective meaning “arranged, ordered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of ordonner. Without its accent, ordonne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est dans un ordre donné”.

What does ordonné mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    arranged, ordered

  2. 2

    prescribed

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of ordonner

verb

as ordonne
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est dans un ordre donné. 2. Qualifie un esprit juste et méthodique. 3. Qui a de l’ordre dans l’emploi de son temps, dans la manière dont il règle ses occupations ; qui tient ses affaires en ordre. 4. Soigneux, qui range les choses à leur place.

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 ordonné

  • ordonnée feminine
  • ordonnés masculine plural
  • ordonnées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to ordonné

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ordonné in French?

ordonné appears 13 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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