rappel à l’ordre
\ʁa.pɛ.l‿a l‿ɔʁdʁ\
The verdict
“rappel à l’ordre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de faire rentrer dans l’ordre l’orateur qui s’en est écarté, en parlant des assemblées politiques ou de toute autre circonstance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rappel à l’ordre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.pɛ.l‿a l‿ɔʁdʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rappel à l’ordre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rappel à l’ordre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.pɛ.l‿a l‿ɔʁdʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de faire rentrer dans l’ordre l’orateur qui s’en est écarté, en parlant des assemblées politiques ou de toute autre circonstance.".
rappel à l’ordre has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rappel à l’ordre, spelled R-A-P-P-E-L- -À- -L-’-O-R-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire rentrer dans l’ordre l’orateur qui s’en est écarté, en parlant des assemblées politiques ou de toute autre circonstance.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rappel à l’ordre”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-P-P-E-L- -À- -L-’-O-R-D-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.