fauvette
\fo.vɛt\
The verdict
“fauvette” is uncommon French (frequency #70,639 among 137,178 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,639
- frequency rank, French
- 137,178
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit oiseau passereau insectivore et chanteur à bec court, tête souvent bombée et queue étroite, parfois redressée. Au sens strict, les fauvettes sont les 18 espèces du genre Sylvia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fauvette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fauvette” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fauvette is uncommon French at frequency #70,639 among 137,178 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fauvette in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fauvette, spelled F-A-U-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit oiseau passereau insectivore et chanteur à bec court, tête souvent bombée et queue étroite, parfois redressée. Au sens strict, les fauvettes sont les 18 espèces du genre Sylvia.
- 2Nom sous lequel ont été longtemps mais erronément désignées les parulines à cause de la ressemblance de leurs mœurs et de leur apparence générale, en dépit de leur appartenance à une famille complètement différente (i.e. celle des parulidés).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fauvette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-V-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fo.vɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.