buse pattue
\byz pa.ty\
The verdict
“buse pattue” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d'oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, une buse de l'hémisphère Nord, aux pattes emplumées, avec des taches sombres sur le ventre et à queue blanchâtre, avec d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buse pattue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \byz pa.ty\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “buse pattue” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for buse pattue is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \byz pa.ty\. 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 buse de l'hémisphère Nord, aux pattes emplumées, avec des taches sombres sur le ventre et à queue blanchâtre, avec d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for buse pattue 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 buse pattue, spelled B-U-S-E- -P-A-T-T-U-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 buse de l'hémisphère Nord, aux pattes emplumées, avec des taches sombres sur le ventre et à queue blanchâtre, avec des bandes terminales sombres.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-U-S-E- -P-A-T-T-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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