ordre de grandeur
The verdict
“ordre de grandeur” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Valeur ou taille approximative, en particulier en logarithme décimal, c’est-à-dire n de la notation scientifique ±a × 10ⁿ.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordre de grandeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.dʁə də ɡʁɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ordre de grandeur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ordre de grandeur is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.dʁə də ɡʁɑ̃.dœʁ\. 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: "Valeur ou taille approximative, en particulier en logarithme décimal, c’est-à-dire n de la notation scientifique ±a × 10ⁿ.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ordre de grandeur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ordre de grandeur, spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-E- -G-R-A-N-D-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Valeur ou taille approximative, en particulier en logarithme décimal, c’est-à-dire n de la notation scientifique ±a × 10ⁿ.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-R-D-R-E- -D-E- -G-R-A-N-D-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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