grand renard volant
\ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.naʁ vɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“grand renard volant” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de très grande chauve-souris frugivore du Sud-Est asiatique, dont certains individus atteignent 1,70 mètre d’envergure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand renard volant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.naʁ vɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand renard volant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand renard volant is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ ʁə.naʁ vɔ.lɑ̃\. 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 de très grande chauve-souris frugivore du Sud-Est asiatique, dont certains individus atteignent 1,70 mètre d’envergure.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grand renard volant 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 grand renard volant, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-N-A-R-D- -V-O-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de très grande chauve-souris frugivore du Sud-Est asiatique, dont certains individus atteignent 1,70 mètre d’envergure.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -R-E-N-A-R-D- -V-O-L-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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