faucon pèlerin
The verdict
“faucon pèlerin” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce d’oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un faucon de répartition quasi mondiale, de taille moyenne, au dos gris foncé, au ventre crème avec des dessins ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faucon pèlerin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.kɔ̃ pɛl.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faucon pèlerin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faucon pèlerin is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fo.kɔ̃ pɛl.ʁɛ̃\. 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 faucon de répartition quasi mondiale, de taille moyenne, au dos gris foncé, au ventre crème avec des dessins ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for faucon pèlerin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faucon pèlerin, spelled F-A-U-C-O-N- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, un faucon de répartition quasi mondiale, de taille moyenne, au dos gris foncé, au ventre crème avec des dessins noirs, la tête noire aux joues blanches avec une tache noire en forme de moustache, réputé pour être l’oiseau le plus rapide en piqué.
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Using “faucon pèlerin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-C-O-N- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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