abeille perce-bois

/\a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\/ noun

The verdict

“abeille perce-bois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Autre nom du xylocope violet.

Key facts for abeille perce-bois
PropertyValue
Headwordabeille perce-bois
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “abeille perce-bois” sits in French frequency

abeille perce-bois falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for abeille perce-bois is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Autre nom du xylocope violet.".

No misspelling variants are generated for abeille perce-bois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is abeille perce-bois, spelled A-B-E-I-L-L-E- -P-E-R-C-E---B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Autre nom du xylocope violet.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "abeille perce-bois"?
"abeille perce-bois" is spelled A-B-E-I-L-L-E- -P-E-R-C-E---B-O-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\.
What does "abeille perce-bois" mean?
As a noun, "abeille perce-bois" means: Autre nom du xylocope violet.
How do you pronounce "abeille perce-bois"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "abeille perce-bois" is \a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "abeille perce-bois" come from?
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Using “abeille perce-bois”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-B-E-I-L-L-E- -P-E-R-C-E---B-O-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \a.bɛj pɛʁ.sə.bwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.