alouette des champs
\a.lwɛt dɛ ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“alouette des champs” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d'oiseau, alouette de l'Ancien Monde, à crête érectile, au plumage dorsal brun strié de brun-noirâtre et aux rectrices externes de la queue tachetées de blanc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alouette des champs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lwɛt dɛ ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alouette des champs” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alouette des champs is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lwɛt dɛ ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d'oiseau, alouette de l'Ancien Monde, à crête érectile, au plumage dorsal brun strié de brun-noirâtre et aux rectrices externes de la queue tachetées de blanc.".
alouette des champs has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alouette des champs, spelled A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Espèce d'oiseau, alouette de l'Ancien Monde, à crête érectile, au plumage dorsal brun strié de brun-noirâtre et aux rectrices externes de la queue tachetées de blanc.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -C-H-A-M-P-S - 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.