baleine à bec de Cuvier

\ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\

/\ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\/ noun

The verdict

“baleine à bec de Cuvier” 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
23
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de baleine à bec des eaux tropicales et tempérées de toutes les mers.

Key facts for baleine à bec de Cuvier
PropertyValue
Headwordbaleine à bec de Cuvier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “baleine à bec de Cuvier” sits in French frequency

baleine à bec de Cuvier 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 baleine à bec de Cuvier is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\. 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: "Espèce de baleine à bec des eaux tropicales et tempérées de toutes les mers.".

No misspelling variants are generated for baleine à bec de Cuvier 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 baleine à bec de Cuvier, spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -À- -B-E-C- -D-E- -C-U-V-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de baleine à bec des eaux tropicales et tempérées de toutes les mers.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baleine à bec de Cuvier"?
"baleine à bec de Cuvier" is spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -À- -B-E-C- -D-E- -C-U-V-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\.
What does "baleine à bec de Cuvier" mean?
As a noun, "baleine à bec de Cuvier" means: Espèce de baleine à bec des eaux tropicales et tempérées de toutes les mers.
How do you pronounce "baleine à bec de Cuvier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baleine à bec de Cuvier" is \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “baleine à bec de Cuvier”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -À- -B-E-C- -D-E- -C-U-V-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də ky.vje\ (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.

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