becquée
\bɛ.ke\
The verdict
“becquée” is uncommon French (frequency #97,697 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,697
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité de nourriture qu’un oiseau peut prendre avec le bec pour la donner à ses petits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-becquee · becquée · French
becquée · rank #97,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,697
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beaupréau
Nearest frequency peer: Beaupréau (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « becquée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bazoches
bazoches
2,307 corpus weight
- bbl
bbl
2,306 corpus weight
- Beaupréau
Beaupréau
2,305 corpus weight
- becquée
becquée
2,304 corpus weight
- Bedlam
Bedlam
2,303 corpus weight
- beloved
beloved
2,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « becquée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | becquée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « becquée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
becquée is uncommon French at frequency #97,697 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for becquée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is becquée, spelled B-E-C-Q-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Quantité de nourriture qu’un oiseau peut prendre avec le bec pour la donner à ses petits.
- 2Nourriture introduite dans le bec d’un oiseau qu’on élève ou qu’on engraisse.
- 3Manière de donner à manger directement dans la bouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how becquée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au bord des avenues, c’était encore une fois la cohue de fin de journée. Certains avaient gagné leur vie, rentraient pressés, se dirigeant tout droit comme l’oiseau qui ramène la becquée au nid.
Un oiseau qui porte la becquée à ses petits.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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