ornithologique
\ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔ.ʒik\
The verdict
“ornithologique” is uncommon French (frequency #56,153 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,153
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’ornithologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ornithologique · ornithologique · French
ornithologique · rank #56,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,153
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ormeaux
Nearest frequency peer: ormeaux (-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 « ornithologique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- organisatio…
organisationnels
43,851 corpus weight
- originals
originals
43,850 corpus weight
- ormeaux
ormeaux
43,849 corpus weight
- ornithologi…
ornithologique
43,848 corpus weight
- Orvault
Orvault
43,847 corpus weight
- Osasuna
Osasuna
43,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ornithologique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornithologique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔ.ʒik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #56,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ornithologique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ornithologique is uncommon French at frequency #56,153 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔ.ʒik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à l’ornithologie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ornithologique, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ornithologique, spelled O-R-N-I-T-H-O-L-O-G-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’ornithologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ornithologique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La faune ornithologique fossile.
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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