ordonner
\ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\
The verdict
“ordonner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,702
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disposer suivant un certain ordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ordonner · ordonner · French
ordonner · rank #15,702 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oranges
Nearest frequency peer: oranges (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ordonner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- octave
octave
84,303 corpus weight
- oil
oil
84,302 corpus weight
- oranges
oranges
84,300 corpus weight
- ordonner
ordonner
84,299 corpus weight
- orne
orne
84,298 corpus weight
- Ouganda
Ouganda
84,296 corpus weight
What this shows « ordonner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ordonner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ordonner (IPA \ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,702 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ordonner, with forms such as "odronner", "orddonner", and "ordnoner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ordonnés", "ordonné", "ordonna", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ordonner, spelled O-R-D-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Disposer suivant un certain ordre.
- 2Commander ; prescrire ; donner des ordres.
- 3Conférer à un séminariste les ordres de l’Église.
- 4Disposer de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ordonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Désormais, il calamistrait ses cheveux noirs, ramenés vers l'arrière. Il les ordonnait avec soin : deux ailes de choucas rayonnant sur les tempes à partir d'un sillon médian.
Ordonner une fête, une cérémonie, un banquet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- odronner
- orddonner
- ordnoner
- ordonenr
- ordoner
- ordonnerr
- ordonnre
- orodnner
- orrdonner
- rodonner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ordonner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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