cerf de Virginie
\sɛʁ də viʁ.ʒi.ni\
The verdict
“cerf de Virginie” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de cervidé vivant en Amérique (Odocoileus virginianus).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerf de Virginie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ də viʁ.ʒi.ni\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerf de Virginie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cerf de Virginie is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ də viʁ.ʒi.ni\. 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 de cervidé vivant en Amérique (Odocoileus virginianus).".
cerf de Virginie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is cerf de Virginie, spelled C-E-R-F- -D-E- -V-I-R-G-I-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de cervidé vivant en Amérique (Odocoileus virginianus).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cerf de Virginie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-E-R-F- -D-E- -V-I-R-G-I-N-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ də viʁ.ʒi.ni\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.