linotte à bec jaune
\li.nɔ.t‿a bɛk ʒon\
The verdict
“linotte à bec jaune” 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 de petit oiseau passereau d'Eurasie, voisin des pinsons au bec jaune clair en période internuptiale, sinon gris, et dont le mâle a un croupion rosé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | linotte à bec jaune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.nɔ.t‿a bɛk ʒon\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “linotte à bec jaune” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for linotte à bec jaune is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.nɔ.t‿a bɛk ʒon\. 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 de petit oiseau passereau d'Eurasie, voisin des pinsons au bec jaune clair en période internuptiale, sinon gris, et dont le mâle a un croupion rosé.".
No misspelling variants are generated for linotte à bec jaune 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 linotte à bec jaune, spelled L-I-N-O-T-T-E- -À- -B-E-C- -J-A-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau d'Eurasie, voisin des pinsons au bec jaune clair en période internuptiale, sinon gris, et dont le mâle a un croupion rosé.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-I-N-O-T-T-E- -À- -B-E-C- -J-A-U-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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