outdoor
\a.ut.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“outdoor” is uncommon French (frequency #51,017 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,017
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sports de plein air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outdoor · outdoor · French
outdoor · rank #51,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,017
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Outreau
Nearest frequency peer: Outreau (+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 « outdoor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ossétie
Ossétie
48,988 corpus weight
- ostéopathe
ostéopathe
48,987 corpus weight
- ostéoporose
ostéoporose
48,986 corpus weight
- outdoor
outdoor
48,984 corpus weight
- Outreau
Outreau
48,983 corpus weight
- paddock
paddock
48,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outdoor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outdoor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ut.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outdoor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outdoor is uncommon French at frequency #51,017 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ut.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sports de plein air.".
No misspelling variants are generated for outdoor in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 outdoor, spelled O-U-T-D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1Sports de plein air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how outdoor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas de sponsors, pour éviter toute pression, mais un financement coopératif. Il a financé la première année grâce à ses revenus d’athlète professionnel, le reste proviendra de la vente du DVD du film A Fine Line qui relate les premiers épisodes de la saga et de ceux qui seront réalisés au fil des expéditions. Son aura est telle dans le monde de l’outdoor…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).