faucon hobereau
\fo.kɔ̃ ʔɔb.ʁo\
The verdict
“faucon hobereau” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un petit faucon qui ressemble à un jeune faucon pèlerin mais avec des culottes rousses aux pattes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faucon hobereau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.kɔ̃ ʔɔb.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faucon hobereau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faucon hobereau is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fo.kɔ̃ ʔɔb.ʁo\. 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 de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un petit faucon qui ressemble à un jeune faucon pèlerin mais avec des culottes rousses aux pattes.".
faucon hobereau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faucon hobereau, spelled F-A-U-C-O-N- -H-O-B-E-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un petit faucon qui ressemble à un jeune faucon pèlerin mais avec des culottes rousses aux pattes.
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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 “faucon hobereau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-C-O-N- -H-O-B-E-R-E-A-U - 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.