Orlov
The verdict
“Orlov” is uncommon French (frequency #73,405 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,405
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orlov · Orlov · French
Orlov · rank #73,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,405
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH onguents
Nearest frequency peer: onguents (-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 « Orlov »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- omnivores
omnivores
26,599 corpus weight
- onguents
onguents
26,597 corpus weight
- Orlov
Orlov
26,596 corpus weight
- Ort
Ort
26,595 corpus weight
- orthodontis…
orthodontiste
26,594 corpus weight
- orthogonal
orthogonal
26,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Orlov » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Orlov |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Orlov » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Orlov is uncommon French at frequency #73,405 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille russe.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Orlov in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Orlov, spelled O-R-L-O-V.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille russe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Orlov appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un concert unique en son genre, intitulé « Voix d’or slaves », où Olga Stolyarova, Valéry Orlov et Nikolay Sherstyakov emmènent leur public dans un voyage musical inoubliable.
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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