ortie
\ɔʁ.ti\
The verdict
“ortie” is uncommon French (frequency #52,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,245
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante aux feuilles pointues, très dentées et garnies, comme les tiges, de poils urticants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ortie · ortie · French
ortie · rank #52,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,245
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OSI
Nearest frequency peer: OSI (+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 « ortie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- opex
opex
47,760 corpus weight
- Ornithologie
Ornithologie
47,759 corpus weight
- orphelinats
orphelinats
47,758 corpus weight
- ortie
ortie
47,756 corpus weight
- OSI
OSI
47,755 corpus weight
- oublierez
oublierez
47,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ortie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ortie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.ti\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ortie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ortie is uncommon French at frequency #52,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔʁ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ortie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 ortie, spelled O-R-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Plante aux feuilles pointues, très dentées et garnies, comme les tiges, de poils urticants.
- 2Plante, généralement de la famille des Lamiacées, ne faisant pas partie des Urticacées, mais présentant avec elles une certaine ressemblance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ortie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La grande ortie (Urtica dioica) est une plante sauvage et fort commune, de la famille des Urticacées, dont la tige et les feuilles sont piquantes.
La petite ortie, ou ortie brûlante (Urtica urens), est plus petite.
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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