bête d’août
\bɛt d‿u\
The verdict
“bête d’août” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de thysanoptère ou thrip.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bete-d-aout · bête d’août · French
bête d’août · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | bête d’août |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛt d‿u\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bête d’août » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bête d’août is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛt d‿u\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de thysanoptère ou thrip.".
bête d’août doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bête d’août, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -D-’-A-O-Û-T.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de thysanoptère ou thrip.
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.