jacamar
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Language
French
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jacamar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom normalisé donné à cinq genres d'oiseaux grimpeurs insectivores comprenant 18 espèces de l'ordre des piciformes et de la famille des galbulidés, apparentés de près aux bucconidés (tamatias et ba... Pronounced \ʒa.ka.maʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jacamar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.ka.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for jacamar is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.ka.maʁ\. 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 normalisé donné à cinq genres d'oiseaux grimpeurs insectivores comprenant 18 espèces de l'ordre des piciformes et de la famille des galbulidés, apparentés de près aux bucconidés (tamatias et ba...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jacamar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jacamar, spelled J-A-C-A-M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom normalisé donné à cinq genres d'oiseaux grimpeurs insectivores comprenant 18 espèces de l'ordre des piciformes et de la famille des galbulidés, apparentés de près aux bucconidés (tamatias et barbacous), dont le plumage coloré a un éclat typiquement métallique, à long bec droit et effilé, à comportement de chasse rappelant celui des guêpiers, et habitant les forêts humides de l'écozone néotropicale.
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