gros-bec
\ɡʁɔ.bɛk\
The verdict
“gros-bec” 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
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'oiseaux en raison de la taille de leur bec, mais ce nom est ambigu car ils n’appartiennent pas à une seule famille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gros-bec |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔ.bɛk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gros-bec” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gros-bec is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁɔ.bɛk\. 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: "Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'oiseaux en raison de la taille de leur bec, mais ce nom est ambigu car ils n’appartiennent pas à une seule famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gros-bec, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gros-bec, spelled G-R-O-S---B-E-C.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d'oiseaux en raison de la taille de leur bec, mais ce nom est ambigu car ils n’appartiennent pas à une seule famille.
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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 “gros-bec”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-R-O-S---B-E-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.