gerfaut
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7 characters
Language
French
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gerfaut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, le plus grand faucon, vivant dans les régions les plus septentrionales de l’hémisphère Nord en Eurasie et en Amérique du ... Pronounced \ʒɛʁ.fo\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gerfaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɛʁ.fo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for gerfaut is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɛʁ.fo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for gerfaut 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 gerfaut, spelled G-E-R-F-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de proies rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des falconidés, le plus grand faucon, vivant dans les régions les plus septentrionales de l’hémisphère Nord en Eurasie et en Amérique du Nord, au plumage très variable.
- 2Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le faucon. À rapprocher de aiglat, aigle, aiglette, aiglettes, aiglons, émerillon, épervier, faucon et vautour.
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