cervelle d’oiseau
\sɛʁ.vɛl d‿wa.zo\
The verdict
“cervelle d’oiseau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne écervelée, qui agit étourdiment, à la légère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cervelle-d-oiseau · cervelle d’oiseau · French
cervelle d’oiseau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cervelle d’oiseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vɛl d‿wa.zo\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cervelle d’oiseau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cervelle d’oiseau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.vɛl d‿wa.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne écervelée, qui agit étourdiment, à la légère.".
cervelle d’oiseau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cervelle d’oiseau, spelled C-E-R-V-E-L-L-E- -D-’-O-I-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Personne écervelée, qui agit étourdiment, à la légère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cervelle d’oiseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cœur d’ange, mais cervelle d’oiseau, elle passait sa vie à réparer par sa bonté le mal qu’elle avait fait par sa légèreté.
Il a promené, du couchant au ponant, sa cervelle d’oiseau, ses doctrines de collège, ses élégances de coiffeur, sans que tant de milieux divers, de spectacles inouïs aient conféré à son écriture le moindre vestige de couleur ou de passion.
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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.