biche à lait
\bi.ʃ‿a lɛ\
The verdict
“biche à lait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pot servant à transporter le lait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biche-a-lait · biche à lait · French
biche à lait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | biche à lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ʃ‿a lɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biche à lait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biche à lait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ʃ‿a lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
biche à lait has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is biche à lait, spelled B-I-C-H-E- -À- -L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Pot servant à transporter le lait.
- 2Meuble représentant l’objet du même nom dans les armoiries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biche à lait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Félix, tu prends la biche à lait. Si vous vous faites repérer, vous n’aurez qu’à dire que vous venez chercher du lait.
D’or à la bande ondée de gueules chargée de trois akènes de charme d’argent, posés dans le sens de la bande, accompagnée, en chef, d’une mitre d’azur chargée d’une flamme du champ et, en pointe, d’une biche à lait d’azur, qui est de Loisey de la Meuse → voir illustration « armoiries avec une biche à lait »
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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.