ourdi
\uʁ.di\
The verdict
“ourdi” is uncommon French (frequency #62,500 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,500
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de ourdir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ourdi · ourdi · French
ourdi · rank #62,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Oullins
Nearest frequency peer: Oullins (-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 « ourdi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Osmond
Osmond
37,504 corpus weight
- osées
osées
37,503 corpus weight
- Oullins
Oullins
37,502 corpus weight
- ourdi
ourdi
37,501 corpus weight
- Oury
Oury
37,500 corpus weight
- outrancière
outrancière
37,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ourdi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ourdi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \uʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ourdi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ourdi is uncommon French at frequency #62,500 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \uʁ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de ourdir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ourdi, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ourdi, spelled O-U-R-D-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de ourdir.
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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