litorne
\li.tɔʁn\
The verdict
“litorne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de grive à tête cendrée. (Turdus pilaris).
Corpus desk
Index FR-litorne · litorne · French
litorne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | litorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.tɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « litorne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
litorne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \li.tɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de grive à tête cendrée. (Turdus pilaris).".
litorne has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is litorne, spelled L-I-T-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de grive à tête cendrée. (Turdus pilaris).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how litorne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celle-ci était une litorne. Que venait-elle faire si prématurément dans les héez ? D’ordinaire, on ne les attend que vers la mi-octobre.
L’arrêté du 7 novembre 2005 a autorisé l’emploi de tendelles dans les départements de l’Aveyron et de la Lozère pour la capture des merles noirs et des grives draines, litornes, mauvis et musiciennes.
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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.