ordures ménagères
\ɔʁ.dyʁ me.na.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“ordures ménagères” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Déchets domestiques produits par les activités quotidiennes des ménages (restes alimentaires, emballages, objets usagés), collectés par les services municipaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordures ménagères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.dyʁ me.na.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ordures ménagères” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ordures ménagères is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔʁ.dyʁ me.na.ʒɛʁ\. 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: "Déchets domestiques produits par les activités quotidiennes des ménages (restes alimentaires, emballages, objets usagés), collectés par les services municipaux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ordures ménagères 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 ordures ménagères, spelled O-R-D-U-R-E-S- -M-É-N-A-G-È-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déchets domestiques produits par les activités quotidiennes des ménages (restes alimentaires, emballages, objets usagés), collectés par les services municipaux.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-R-D-U-R-E-S- -M-É-N-A-G-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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