ornières
\ɔʁ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“ornières” is uncommon French (frequency #69,286 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,286
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ornière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ornieres · ornières · French
ornières · rank #69,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,286
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Ornella
Nearest frequency peer: Ornella (-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 « ornières »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opérera
opérera
30,718 corpus weight
- orchard
orchard
30,717 corpus weight
- Ornella
Ornella
30,716 corpus weight
- ornières
ornières
30,715 corpus weight
- ourlets
ourlets
30,714 corpus weight
- ovo
ovo
30,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ornières » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ornières » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ornières is uncommon French at frequency #69,286 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ornière.".
ornières doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ornières, spelled O-R-N-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ornière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ornières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines ornières avaient été rempierrées avec des gravats de brique et de plâtre et, plutôt que rendre service, elles se révélaient comme des zones traîtresses pour les pneus usés de la Benelli.
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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