gélinotte des bois
\ʒe.li.nɔt dɛ bwa\
The verdict
“gélinotte des bois” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d’oiseau de la sous-famille des tétraoninés (tétras et alliés), petit gallinacé d’Eurasie sédentaire dont le mâle a une petite crête érectile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gélinotte des bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.li.nɔt dɛ bwa\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gélinotte des bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gélinotte des bois is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.li.nɔt dɛ bwa\. 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 la sous-famille des tétraoninés (tétras et alliés), petit gallinacé d’Eurasie sédentaire dont le mâle a une petite crête érectile.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gélinotte des bois 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 gélinotte des bois, spelled G-É-L-I-N-O-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau de la sous-famille des tétraoninés (tétras et alliés), petit gallinacé d’Eurasie sédentaire dont le mâle a une petite crête érectile.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-É-L-I-N-O-T-T-E- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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