grand butor
\ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\
The verdict
“grand butor” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de butor étoilé (oiseau).
| 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) |
Where “grand butor” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand butor is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\. 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: "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).
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.
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Using “grand butor”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -B-U-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁɑ̃ by.tɔʁ\ (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.