bête à manger de l’herbe
\bɛ.t‿a mɑ̃.ʒe də l‿ɛʁb\
The verdict
“bête à manger de l’herbe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de bête à manger du foin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bête à manger de l’herbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ.t‿a mɑ̃.ʒe də l‿ɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bête à manger de l’herbe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bête à manger de l’herbe is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.t‿a mɑ̃.ʒe də l‿ɛʁb\. 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: "Variante de bête à manger du foin".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bête à manger de l’herbe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bête à manger de l’herbe, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -À- -M-A-N-G-E-R- -D-E- -L-’-H-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de bête à manger du foin
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 “bête à manger de l’herbe”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-Ê-T-E- -À- -M-A-N-G-E-R- -D-E- -L-’-H-E-R-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bɛ.t‿a mɑ̃.ʒe də l‿ɛʁb\ (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.