orthographier
\ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\
The verdict
“orthographier” is uncommon French (frequency #92,006 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,006
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrire les mots suivant l’orthographe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orthographier · orthographier · French
orthographier · rank #92,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,006
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oriana
Nearest frequency peer: Oriana (-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 « orthographier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oratrice
oratrice
7,999 corpus weight
- ordonnons
ordonnons
7,998 corpus weight
- Ordovicien
Ordovicien
7,997 corpus weight
- Oriana
Oriana
7,996 corpus weight
- orthographi…
orthographier
7,995 corpus weight
- ostrogoths
ostrogoths
7,994 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « orthographier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orthographier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #92,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « orthographier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
orthographier is uncommon French at frequency #92,006 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔʁ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écrire les mots suivant l’orthographe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for orthographier in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is orthographier, spelled O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écrire les mots suivant l’orthographe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orthographier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa tentative fut retardée par cette altercation qu’on rapporta très inexactement en orthographiant son nom Betteridge et Betridge.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).