ornaient
\ɔʁ.nɛ\
The verdict
“ornaient” is uncommon French (frequency #66,967 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,967
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ornaient · ornaient · French
ornaient · rank #66,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oris
Nearest frequency peer: oris (-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 « ornaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- optimisant
optimisant
33,038 corpus weight
- orders
orders
33,036 corpus weight
- oris
oris
33,035 corpus weight
- ornaient
ornaient
33,034 corpus weight
- owl
owl
33,032 corpus weight
- papaoutai
papaoutai
33,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ornaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ornaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ornaient is uncommon French at frequency #66,967 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔʁ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orner.".
ornaient has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ornaient, spelled O-R-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de orner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ornaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mollement enfoncé dans un fauteuil relaxe de la salle de séjour de son appartement privé, un verre de whisky à portée de la main, Jacques Dubois-Rimbert laissait paresseusement errer son regard sur les toiles de maîtres qui ornaient les murs aux teintes beige rosé de la pièce.
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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