langue des oiseaux
\lɑ̃ɡ dɛ.z‿wa.zo\
The verdict
“langue des oiseaux” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble de techniques de spéculations qui imagine un sens autre à des lettres, des mots ou à une phrase, soit par un jeu de sonorités, soit par des jeux de mots.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue des oiseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ dɛ.z‿wa.zo\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “langue des oiseaux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for langue des oiseaux is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃ɡ dɛ.z‿wa.zo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for langue des oiseaux 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 langue des oiseaux, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -D-E-S- -O-I-S-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de techniques de spéculations qui imagine un sens autre à des lettres, des mots ou à une phrase, soit par un jeu de sonorités, soit par des jeux de mots.
- 2Dans la tradition hermétique, langue universelle, compréhensible par toutes et tous, l'âme rencontrant chacun des mots.
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E- -D-E-S- -O-I-S-E-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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