oriol
The verdict
“oriol” is uncommon French (frequency #72,590 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,590
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loriot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oriol · oriol · French
oriol · rank #72,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,590
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ophtalmologis…
Nearest frequency peer: ophtalmologiste (-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 « oriol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- often
often
27,414 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologiste
27,412 corpus weight
- oriol
oriol
27,411 corpus weight
- ornithologue
ornithologue
27,410 corpus weight
- oster
oster
27,409 corpus weight
- packer
packer
27,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « oriol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oriol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « oriol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
oriol is uncommon French at frequency #72,590 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Loriot.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oriol, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is oriol, spelled O-R-I-O-L.
Definition
- 1Loriot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oriol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plume est de oriol
et ot le melle et l’oriol chanter.
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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