lagopède des saules
\la.ɡɔ.pɛd dɛ sol\
The verdict
“lagopède des saules” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d’oiseau de la sous-famille des tétraoninés (tétras et alliés) d’Eurasie et d’Amérique du Nord, blanc et noir en hiver, et avec dimorphisme sexuel en été, le plumage du mâle étant brun marbr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lagopède des saules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ɡɔ.pɛd dɛ sol\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lagopède des saules” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lagopède des saules is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ɡɔ.pɛd dɛ sol\. 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) d’Eurasie et d’Amérique du Nord, blanc et noir en hiver, et avec dimorphisme sexuel en été, le plumage du mâle étant brun marbr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for lagopède des saules 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 lagopède des saules, spelled L-A-G-O-P-È-D-E- -D-E-S- -S-A-U-L-E-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) d’Eurasie et d’Amérique du Nord, blanc et noir en hiver, et avec dimorphisme sexuel en été, le plumage du mâle étant brun marbré, noir, blanc et rougeâtre.
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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