canard de Barbarie
The verdict
“canard de Barbarie” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Un canard domestique de différentes races, répandu surtout en pays chauds, et issu du canard sauvage américain appelé canard musqué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canard de Barbarie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.naʁ də baʁ.ba.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canard de Barbarie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canard de Barbarie is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.naʁ də baʁ.ba.ʁi\. 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: "Un canard domestique de différentes races, répandu surtout en pays chauds, et issu du canard sauvage américain appelé canard musqué.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canard de Barbarie 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 canard de Barbarie, spelled C-A-N-A-R-D- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un canard domestique de différentes races, répandu surtout en pays chauds, et issu du canard sauvage américain appelé canard musqué.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-R-D- -D-E- -B-A-R-B-A-R-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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