orientait
\ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“orientait” is uncommon French (frequency #95,132 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,132
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orienter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orientait · orientait · French
orientait · rank #95,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ornon
Nearest frequency peer: ornon (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « orientait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ondées
ondées
4,873 corpus weight
- oost
oost
4,872 corpus weight
- orientait
orientait
4,869 corpus weight
- ornon
ornon
4,868 corpus weight
- orthogonaux
orthogonaux
4,867 corpus weight
- outarde
outarde
4,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orientait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orientait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orientait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orientait is uncommon French at frequency #95,132 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orienter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for orientait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is orientait, spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orienter.
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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