ornithologue
\ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“ornithologue” is uncommon French (frequency #72,591 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,591
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ornithologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ornithologue · ornithologue · French
ornithologue · rank #72,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,591
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oriol
Nearest frequency peer: oriol (-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 « ornithologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologiste
27,412 corpus weight
- oriol
oriol
27,411 corpus weight
- ornithologue
ornithologue
27,410 corpus weight
- oster
oster
27,409 corpus weight
- packer
packer
27,408 corpus weight
- Palmade
Palmade
27,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ornithologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ornithologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #72,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ornithologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ornithologue is uncommon French at frequency #72,591 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.ni.tɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ornithologie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ornithologue, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ornithologue, spelled O-R-N-I-T-H-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui s’occupe d’ornithologie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ornithologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Nouvelle-Zélande, le vote pour l’Oiseau de l'année, toujours controversé, a commencé avec la colère d’ornithologues amateurs, furieux de voir le kakapo exclu.
Certaines espèces s’en sortent mieux que d’autres, note l’ornithologue Alexandre Millon, maître de conférences à Aix-Marseille université.
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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