bête de trait
\bɛt də tʁɛ\
The verdict
“bête de trait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal que l’on attelle pour tirer des charges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bete-de-trait · bête de trait · French
bête de trait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 de trait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛt də tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bête de trait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛt də tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal que l’on attelle pour tirer des charges.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bête de trait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bête de trait, spelled B-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Animal que l’on attelle pour tirer des charges.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bête de trait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont nos guides, nos amis et leurs bêtes de trait, créatures intelligentes, robustes et fidèles, que je n’ai pas voulu entasser à bord, et qui viennent nous rejoindre conformément à la convention faite dans le sud du Groenland.
Nous supposons que les chevaux des émigrants ne traînaient que 500 kilogrammes en outre du poids mort, ce qui donnerait environ 6000 voitures et 24000 bêtes de trait pour transporter les trois mois de vivres.
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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.