orthogonale
\ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡɔ.nal\
The verdict
“orthogonale” is uncommon French (frequency #82,303 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,303
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier d’orthogonal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orthogonale · orthogonale · French
orthogonale · rank #82,303 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,303
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OQLF
Nearest frequency peer: OQLF (-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 « orthogonale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- operator
operator
17,701 corpus weight
- ophtalmolog…
ophtalmologique
17,700 corpus weight
- OQLF
OQLF
17,699 corpus weight
- orthogonale
orthogonale
17,698 corpus weight
- OSBL
OSBL
17,697 corpus weight
- oscarisé
oscarisé
17,696 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orthogonale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orthogonale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orthogonale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orthogonale is uncommon French at frequency #82,303 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier d’orthogonal.".
No misspelling variants are generated for orthogonale in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 orthogonale, spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-O-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier d’orthogonal.
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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