cacatuidés
The verdict
“cacatuidés” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Famille d'oiseaux arboricoles, frugivores et granivores, de l'ordre des psittaciformes, comprenant les sept genres et 20 espèces de cacatoès et l'unique espèce de calopsitte existantes, qui se dist...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacatuidés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ka.tɥi.de\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cacatuidés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cacatuidés is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ka.tɥi.de\. 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: "Famille d'oiseaux arboricoles, frugivores et granivores, de l'ordre des psittaciformes, comprenant les sept genres et 20 espèces de cacatoès et l'unique espèce de calopsitte existantes, qui se dist...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cacatuidés 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 cacatuidés, spelled C-A-C-A-T-U-I-D-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Famille d'oiseaux arboricoles, frugivores et granivores, de l'ordre des psittaciformes, comprenant les sept genres et 20 espèces de cacatoès et l'unique espèce de calopsitte existantes, qui se distinguent des autres familles psittacines de l'ordre par leur huppe érectile et par l'absence de colorations bleues et vertes de leur plumage, qui est caractérisé par un leucisme ou par divers degrés de pigmentation de mélanine, et que l'on retrouve exclusivement dans divers habitats tropicaux et subtropicaux de l'écozone australasienne.
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Using “cacatuidés”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-C-A-T-U-I-D-É-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ka.tɥi.de\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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