cerisier des oiseaux
\sə.ʁi.zje dɛ.z‿wa.zo\
The verdict
“cerisier des oiseaux” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prunus avium, arbre de la famille des Rosacées (ou Rosaceae), largement répandu en Europe et en Asie de l’Ouest. Ses fruits, petites cerises amères ou merises, sont appréciés des oiseaux.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cerisier des oiseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ʁi.zje dɛ.z‿wa.zo\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cerisier des oiseaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cerisier des oiseaux is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ʁi.zje dɛ.z‿wa.zo\. 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: "Prunus avium, arbre de la famille des Rosacées (ou Rosaceae), largement répandu en Europe et en Asie de l’Ouest. Ses fruits, petites cerises amères ou merises, sont appréciés des oiseaux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cerisier des oiseaux 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 cerisier des oiseaux, spelled C-E-R-I-S-I-E-R- -D-E-S- -O-I-S-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prunus avium, arbre de la famille des Rosacées (ou Rosaceae), largement répandu en Europe et en Asie de l’Ouest. Ses fruits, petites cerises amères ou merises, sont appréciés des oiseaux.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-E-R-I-S-I-E-R- -D-E-S- -O-I-S-E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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