grue du Japon
The verdict
“grue du Japon” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce d'oiseau grand échassier, une grande grue de l'est de l'Asie, blanche et noire, au sommet du crâne rouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grue du Japon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁy dy ʒa.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grue du Japon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for grue du Japon is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁy dy ʒa.pɔ̃\. 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 grand échassier, une grande grue de l'est de l'Asie, blanche et noire, au sommet du crâne rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grue du Japon 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 grue du Japon, spelled G-R-U-E- -D-U- -J-A-P-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 grand échassier, une grande grue de l'est de l'Asie, blanche et noire, au sommet du crâne rouge.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-U-E- -D-U- -J-A-P-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡʁy dy ʒa.pɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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