orientalistes
\ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.list\
The verdict
“orientalistes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,493 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,493
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de orientaliste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orientalistes · orientalistes · French
orientalistes · rank #62,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,493
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orientalisme
Nearest frequency peer: orientalisme (-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 « orientalistes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oppa
oppa
37,511 corpus weight
- optimisatio…
optimisations
37,510 corpus weight
- orientalisme
orientalisme
37,509 corpus weight
- orientalist…
orientalistes
37,508 corpus weight
- originaleme…
originalement
37,507 corpus weight
- ornementale
ornementale
37,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orientalistes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orientalistes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.list\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #62,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orientalistes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orientalistes is uncommon French at frequency #62,493 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de orientaliste.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for orientalistes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is orientalistes, spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de orientaliste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orientalistes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tendance pro-arabe se retrouvait essentiellement au Quai d’Orsay, dans la diplomatie, et parmi les intellectuels orientalistes.
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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