drôle d’oiseau
\dʁol d‿wazo\
The verdict
“drôle 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Individu particulier ou hors normes, un original.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drole-d-oiseau · drôle d’oiseau · French
drôle d’oiseau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | drôle d’oiseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁol d‿wazo\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « drôle d’oiseau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
drôle d’oiseau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dʁol d‿wazo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Individu particulier ou hors normes, un original.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for drôle d’oiseau, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 drôle d’oiseau, spelled D-R-Ô-L-E- -D-’-O-I-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Individu particulier ou hors normes, un original.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how drôle d’oiseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ses contemporains, c'était un zozo. Un drôle d'oiseau ! Un original, comme on dit trivialement de quelqu'un, quand ses faits et gestes nous dépassent. Délicieux détail, Malcolm de Chazal avait un cheveu sur la langue, donc zozotait...
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