épervier d’Europe
\e.pɛʁ.vje d‿ø.ʁɔp\
The verdict
“épervier d’Europe” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau, petit rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un épervier des régions boisées d’Europe occidentale, d’Asie et d’Afrique, à queue longue, à ailes courtes et arr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épervier d’Europe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɛʁ.vje d‿ø.ʁɔp\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “épervier d’Europe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épervier d’Europe is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pɛʁ.vje d‿ø.ʁɔp\. 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 d’oiseau, petit rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un épervier des régions boisées d’Europe occidentale, d’Asie et d’Afrique, à queue longue, à ailes courtes et arr...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for épervier d’Europe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is épervier d’Europe, spelled É-P-E-R-V-I-E-R- -D-’-E-U-R-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau, petit rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un épervier des régions boisées d’Europe occidentale, d’Asie et d’Afrique, à queue longue, à ailes courtes et arrondies, aux yeux jaunes, et dont le mâle (tiercelet) est un tiers plus petit que la femelle.
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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.
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Using “épervier d’Europe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-E-R-V-I-E-R- -D-’-E-U-R-O-P-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pɛʁ.vje d‿ø.ʁɔp\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.