grand tétras
\ɡʁɑ̃ te.tʁɑ\
The verdict
“grand tétras” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d'oiseau de la sous-famille des tétraoninés (tétras et alliés), un gros tétras habitant les forêts de conifères de montagnes, au plumage du mâle surtout gris à brun foncé, le poitrail à refl...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grand tétras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃ te.tʁɑ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grand tétras” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grand tétras is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɑ̃ te.tʁɑ\. 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), un gros tétras habitant les forêts de conifères de montagnes, au plumage du mâle surtout gris à brun foncé, le poitrail à refl...".
No misspelling variants are generated for grand tétras 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 tétras, spelled G-R-A-N-D- -T-É-T-R-A-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), un gros tétras habitant les forêts de conifères de montagnes, au plumage du mâle surtout gris à brun foncé, le poitrail à reflets métalliques, au plumage de la femelle surtout brun.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-N-D- -T-É-T-R-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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