birdy

adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « birdy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for birdy
PropertyValue
Headwordbirdy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#58,455
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « birdy » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).birdytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « biométrie » (#58,454), « blanchâtres » (#58,456), « bicycle » (#58,453). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « birdy » est au #58,455. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Se dit d’un chien de chasse excité par sa rencontre avec un oiseau ou avec son odeur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how birdy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "birdy", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list