birdy
The verdict
“birdy” is uncommon French (frequency #58,455 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,455
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.
| 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) |
Where “birdy” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
birdy is uncommon French at frequency #58,455 among 227,490 “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.
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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Using “birdy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-R-D-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.