bondrée apivore
\bɔ̃.dʁe a.pi.vɔʁ\
The verdict
“bondrée apivore” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, une bondrée proche des buses, de l’Ancien Monde, qui ressemble à la buse variable, mais avec des stries horizontales bor...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bondrée apivore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.dʁe a.pi.vɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bondrée apivore” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bondrée apivore is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔ̃.dʁe a.pi.vɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, une bondrée proche des buses, de l’Ancien Monde, qui ressemble à la buse variable, mais avec des stries horizontales bor...".
No misspelling variants are generated for bondrée apivore in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bondrée apivore, spelled B-O-N-D-R-É-E- -A-P-I-V-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, une bondrée proche des buses, de l’Ancien Monde, qui ressemble à la buse variable, mais avec des stries horizontales bordées de couleurs sombres sous les ailes et la queue, insectivore et migratrice.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-N-D-R-É-E- -A-P-I-V-O-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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