baleine à bec de Perrin
\ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də pɛ.ʁin\
The verdict
“baleine à bec de Perrin” 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 découverte sur les côtes de Californie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baleine à bec de Perrin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də pɛ.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baleine à bec de Perrin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baleine à bec de Perrin is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɛ.n‿a bɛk də pɛ.ʁin\. 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 découverte sur les côtes de Californie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for baleine à bec de Perrin 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 Perrin, spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -À- -B-E-C- -D-E- -P-E-R-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de baleine à bec découverte sur les côtes de Californie.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -À- -B-E-C- -D-E- -P-E-R-R-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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