bécasseau
French, noun/be.ka.so/
bécasseau is spelled B-É-C-A-S-S-E-A-U (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bécasseau is a French masculine noun meaning “stint, sandpiper (bird of genus Calidris)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit échassier de rivage limicole qui vit surtout dans les régions septentrionales sur le bord des lacs, des…”.
What does bécasseau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestint, sandpiper (bird of genus Calidris)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit échassier de rivage limicole qui vit surtout dans les régions septentrionales sur le bord des lacs, des marais, des côtes de la mer. Il appartient à divers genres et il en existe de nombreuses espèces. 2. Petit de la bécasse ou de la bécassine. 3. Personne, en particulier enfant, qui dit des bêtises. → voir bécasson
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bécasseau
- bécasseaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bécasseau?
- /be.ka.so/
- \be.ka.so\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bécasseau in French?
bécasseau appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).