birdy

adj

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.

Key facts for birdy
PropertyValue
Headwordbirdy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,455
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “birdy” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). birdy lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Se 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "birdy"?
"birdy" is spelled B-I-R-D-Y.
What does "birdy" mean?
As an adjective, "birdy" means: Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.
What language does "birdy" come from?
"birdy" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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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.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list