grèbe esclavon
The verdict
“grèbe esclavon” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce d'oiseau aquatique de la famille des podicipédidés, souvent confondu avec le grèbe à cou noir, mais deux belles bandes de plumes érectiles dorées s'étendant du coin de l'œil jusqu'à l'arrièr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grèbe esclavon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɛ.b‿ɛs.kla.vɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grèbe esclavon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grèbe esclavon is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɛ.b‿ɛs.kla.vɔ̃\. 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 aquatique de la famille des podicipédidés, souvent confondu avec le grèbe à cou noir, mais deux belles bandes de plumes érectiles dorées s'étendant du coin de l'œil jusqu'à l'arrièr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for grèbe esclavon 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 grèbe esclavon, spelled G-R-È-B-E- -E-S-C-L-A-V-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d'oiseau aquatique de la famille des podicipédidés, souvent confondu avec le grèbe à cou noir, mais deux belles bandes de plumes érectiles dorées s'étendant du coin de l'œil jusqu'à l'arrière du crâne en été.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-È-B-E- -E-S-C-L-A-V-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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