bouvreuil pivoine
\bu.vʁœj pi.vwan\
The verdict
“bouvreuil pivoine” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, voisin des pinsons, trapu, à livrée élégante, au dessus de la tête, aux ailes et à la queue noires, au dos gris-bleu, et à la poitrine rouge-orangé (mâle...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bouvreuil pivoine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bu.vʁœj pi.vwan\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bouvreuil pivoine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bouvreuil pivoine is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bu.vʁœj pi.vwan\. 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 de petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, voisin des pinsons, trapu, à livrée élégante, au dessus de la tête, aux ailes et à la queue noires, au dos gris-bleu, et à la poitrine rouge-orangé (mâle...".
Zero misspellings are on record for bouvreuil pivoine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bouvreuil pivoine, spelled B-O-U-V-R-E-U-I-L- -P-I-V-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, voisin des pinsons, trapu, à livrée élégante, au dessus de la tête, aux ailes et à la queue noires, au dos gris-bleu, et à la poitrine rouge-orangé (mâle) ou gris-orangé à beige (femelle).
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-U-V-R-E-U-I-L- -P-I-V-O-I-N-E - 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.