bécassine des marais

/\be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\/ noun

Letters

20 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

bécassine des marais is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole, de l’Ancien Monde, l’une des trois espèces de bécassines vivant en France. Pronounced \be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\.

Key facts for bécassine des marais
PropertyValue
Headwordbécassine des marais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bécassine des marais is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bécassine des marais is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\. 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, de l’Ancien Monde, l’une des trois espèces de bécassines vivant en France.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bécassine des marais in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 bécassine des marais, spelled B-É-C-A-S-S-I-N-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole, de l’Ancien Monde, l’une des trois espèces de bécassines vivant en France.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bécassine des marais"?
"bécassine des marais" is spelled B-É-C-A-S-S-I-N-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\.
What does "bécassine des marais" mean?
As a noun, "bécassine des marais" means: Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier, limicole, de l’Ancien Monde, l’une des trois espèces de bécassines vivant en France.
How do you pronounce "bécassine des marais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bécassine des marais" is \be.ka.sin dɛ ma.ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bécassine des marais" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.