bird's-eye
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/
"bird-s-eye" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bird's-eye” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bird-s-eye · bird's-eye · English
bird's-eye · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bird's-eye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bird's-eye” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bird's-eye is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbɜː(ɹ)dz ˈaɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bird's-eye, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 English form is bird's-eye, spelled B-I-R-D-'-S---E-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird.
- 2As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bird's-eye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.
In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.
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.