ordre des choses

/\ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ordre des choses is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui arrive, ce qui se passe, sans qu’il soit possible de le discuter, de le refuser. Pronounced \ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\.

Key facts for ordre des choses
PropertyValue
Headwordordre des choses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ordre des choses is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ordre des choses is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\. 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: "Ce qui arrive, ce qui se passe, sans qu’il soit possible de le discuter, de le refuser.".

No misspelling variants are generated for ordre des choses 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 des choses, spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-O-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui arrive, ce qui se passe, sans qu’il soit possible de le discuter, de le refuser.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ordre des choses"?
"ordre des choses" is spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-O-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\.
What does "ordre des choses" mean?
As a noun, "ordre des choses" means: Ce qui arrive, ce qui se passe, sans qu’il soit possible de le discuter, de le refuser.
How do you pronounce "ordre des choses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ordre des choses" is \ɔʁ.d(ʁə) dɛ ʃoz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ordre des choses" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.