orpailleurs
\ɔʁ.pa.jœʁ\
The verdict
“orpailleurs” is uncommon French (frequency #89,988 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,988
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de orpailleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orpailleurs · orpailleurs · French
orpailleurs · rank #89,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,988
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oriflamme
Nearest frequency peer: oriflamme (-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 « orpailleurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Okanagan
Okanagan
10,018 corpus weight
- Olav
Olav
10,017 corpus weight
- onduleur
onduleur
10,016 corpus weight
- organolepti…
organoleptiques
10,015 corpus weight
- oriflamme
oriflamme
10,014 corpus weight
- orpailleurs
orpailleurs
10,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orpailleurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orpailleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.pa.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orpailleurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orpailleurs is uncommon French at frequency #89,988 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.pa.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de orpailleur.".
orpailleurs has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 orpailleurs, spelled O-R-P-A-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de orpailleur.
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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