ordre des mots

/\ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\/ noun

The verdict

“ordre des mots” 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ordre des mots syntaxiquement liés qui a fonction grammaticale ou stylistique.

Key facts for ordre des mots
PropertyValue
Headwordordre des mots
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ordre des mots” sits in French frequency

ordre des mots falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ordre des mots is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\. 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: "Ordre des mots syntaxiquement liés qui a fonction grammaticale ou stylistique.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Ordre des mots syntaxiquement liés qui a fonction grammaticale ou stylistique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ordre des mots"?
"ordre des mots" is spelled O-R-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\.
What does "ordre des mots" mean?
As a noun, "ordre des mots" means: Ordre des mots syntaxiquement liés qui a fonction grammaticale ou stylistique.
How do you pronounce "ordre des mots"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ordre des mots" is \ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ordre des mots" come from?
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Using “ordre des mots”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is O-R-D-R-E- -D-E-S- -M-O-T-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ɔʁ.dʁə de mo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.