laridés
\la.ʁi.de\
The verdict
“laridés” 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grande famille d'oiseaux néognathes palmipèdes et aquatiques de l'ordre des charadriiformes, composée d'environ 102 espèces existantes réparties en 23 genres incluant les noddis, gygis, becs-en-cis...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laridés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.ʁi.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laridés” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laridés is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ʁi.de\. 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: "Grande famille d'oiseaux néognathes palmipèdes et aquatiques de l'ordre des charadriiformes, composée d'environ 102 espèces existantes réparties en 23 genres incluant les noddis, gygis, becs-en-cis...".
No misspelling variants are generated for laridés 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 laridés, spelled L-A-R-I-D-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grande famille d'oiseaux néognathes palmipèdes et aquatiques de l'ordre des charadriiformes, composée d'environ 102 espèces existantes réparties en 23 genres incluant les noddis, gygis, becs-en-ciseaux, sternes, guifettes, mouettes, et goélands, cosmopolites, généralement de taille moyenne à grande, à bec pointu, dont la mandibule inférieure est parfois renflée (genre Larus) ou plus grande que la mandibule supérieure (e.g. bec-en-ciseaux), nichant en colonies parfois très vastes et le plus souvent situées dans des lieux reculés inaccessibles à tout prédateur terrestre, et dont les ailes de grande taille et à forte musculature contribuent à en faire d'excellents voiliers.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-R-I-D-É-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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