ornière
\ɔʁ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“ornière” is uncommon French (frequency #52,882 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,882
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trace profonde que les roues d’un véhicule font dans les chemins ou les terrains détrempés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orniere · ornière · French
ornière · rank #52,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,882
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opportunity
Nearest frequency peer: opportunity (-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 « ornière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oj
oj
47,123 corpus weight
- oligarque
oligarque
47,122 corpus weight
- opportunity
opportunity
47,120 corpus weight
- ornière
ornière
47,119 corpus weight
- ourlet
ourlet
47,118 corpus weight
- Ozon
Ozon
47,116 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ornière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ornière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ornière is uncommon French at frequency #52,882 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ornière, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ornière, spelled O-R-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Trace profonde que les roues d’un véhicule font dans les chemins ou les terrains détrempés.
- 2Habitude, routine à laquelle on ne peut renoncer aisément, opinion adoptée et suivie sans examen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ornière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il la rejoint, se déchausse pour sentir sous son talon le pré de la Célestine, la charrière des Bonnat qu’on suivait entre les ornières profondes des routes.
Des charrettes chargées de marchandises allaient dans tous les sens, en grinçant sur leurs essieux criards et en creusant de profondes ornières.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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