bécasse des bois
\be.kas dɛ bwa\
The verdict
“bécasse des 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier limicole d’Eurasie, gros, dont le plumage décline toutes les nuances de couleur du brun foncé au beige clair, barré au-dessus de la tête, oiseau migrateur discret.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bécasse des bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.kas dɛ bwa\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bécasse des bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bécasse des bois is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.kas dɛ 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: "Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier limicole d’Eurasie, gros, dont le plumage décline toutes les nuances de couleur du brun foncé au beige clair, barré au-dessus de la tête, oiseau migrateur discret.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bécasse des bois in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 French form is bécasse des bois, spelled B-É-C-A-S-S-E- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier limicole d’Eurasie, gros, dont le plumage décline toutes les nuances de couleur du brun foncé au beige clair, barré au-dessus de la tête, oiseau migrateur discret.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “bécasse des bois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-É-C-A-S-S-E- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \be.kas dɛ bwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.