béquée
\be.ke\
The verdict
“béquée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourriture qu’un bec peut contenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bequee · béquée · French
béquée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | béquée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « béquée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
béquée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nourriture qu’un bec peut contenir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for béquée, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is béquée, spelled B-É-Q-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nourriture qu’un bec peut contenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how béquée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il signifie la béquée, c’est-à-dire « la nourriture qu’un oiseau prend dans son bec » pour l’apporter à ses petits.
Synonyms
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.