busard
\by.zaʁ\
The verdict
“busard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d'oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés à ailes et queue longues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-busard · busard · French
busard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | busard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « busard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
busard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.zaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d'oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés à ailes et queue longues.".
No misspelling variants are generated for busard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 busard, spelled B-U-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Espèce d'oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés à ailes et queue longues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how busard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le busard des marais est aussi nommé harpaye.
Un busard apparut, planant dans le ciel, puis il se mit à descendre en décrivant des spirales.
This word in other languages
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