calopsitte
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Language
French
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calopsitte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Genre monospécifique d'oiseau arboricole granivore de la famille des cacatuidés (ordre des psittaciformes) ressemblant à un cacatoès miniature, à huppe érectile et à plumage gris anthracite, à tach... Pronounced \ka.lɔ.psit\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calopsitte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lɔ.psit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for calopsitte is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.lɔ.psit\. 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: "Genre monospécifique d'oiseau arboricole granivore de la famille des cacatuidés (ordre des psittaciformes) ressemblant à un cacatoès miniature, à huppe érectile et à plumage gris anthracite, à tach...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for calopsitte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 calopsitte, spelled C-A-L-O-P-S-I-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genre monospécifique d'oiseau arboricole granivore de la famille des cacatuidés (ordre des psittaciformes) ressemblant à un cacatoès miniature, à huppe érectile et à plumage gris anthracite, à taches malaires rondes d'un rouge orangé, et (chez le mâle) à masque facial jaune, fréquemment gardé comme oiseau de compagnie, et dont dont il existe de nombreuses variétés d'élevage, originaire d'Australie (genre Nymphicus).
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