birdy
The verdict
“birdy” is uncommon French (frequency #58,455 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,455
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-birdy · birdy · French
birdy · rank #58,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,455
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biométrie
Nearest frequency peer: biométrie (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « birdy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bicycle
bicycle
41,548 corpus weight
- biométrie
biométrie
41,547 corpus weight
- birdy
birdy
41,546 corpus weight
- blanchâtres
blanchâtres
41,545 corpus weight
- blanquette
blanquette
41,544 corpus weight
- blockhaus
blockhaus
41,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « birdy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | birdy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « birdy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
birdy is uncommon French at frequency #58,455 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.".
birdy has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is birdy, spelled B-I-R-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how birdy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I think your dog is getting birdy.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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