étourneau sansonnet
\e.tuʁ.no sɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“étourneau sansonnet” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, introduit ailleurs, étourneau noir semé de taches blanches ou fauves, souvent envahissant, et qui apprend facilement à siffler et même à prononcer quelqu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | étourneau sansonnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tuʁ.no sɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “étourneau sansonnet” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for étourneau sansonnet is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.tuʁ.no sɑ̃.sɔ.nɛ\. 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 petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, introduit ailleurs, étourneau noir semé de taches blanches ou fauves, souvent envahissant, et qui apprend facilement à siffler et même à prononcer quelqu...".
Zero misspellings are on record for étourneau sansonnet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is étourneau sansonnet, spelled É-T-O-U-R-N-E-A-U- -S-A-N-S-O-N-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, introduit ailleurs, étourneau noir semé de taches blanches ou fauves, souvent envahissant, et qui apprend facilement à siffler et même à prononcer quelques mots.
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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 “étourneau sansonnet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-T-O-U-R-N-E-A-U- -S-A-N-S-O-N-N-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.