grand butor
\ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“grand butor” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de butor étoilé (oiseau).
Corpus desk
Index FR-grand-butor · grand butor · French
grand butor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand butor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
grand butor is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de butor étoilé (oiseau).".
grand butor doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grand butor, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -B-U-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de butor étoilé (oiseau).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grand butor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour peu qu'elles soient suffisamment inondées au printemps, elles peuvent accueillir de nombreux oiseaux, notamment quelques couples de grand butor, quelques dizaines de couples de butor blongios, quelques centaines de couples de héron pourpré.
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.