nestor kéa
\nɛs.tɔʁ ke.a\
The verdict
“nestor kéa” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 10
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de psittaciforme endémique de Nouvelle-Zélande, de la famille des nestoridés, qui vit exclusivement dans les montagnes où elle se nourrit entre autres de nectar et des fruits d’agathis, un a...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nestor kéa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛs.tɔʁ ke.a\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nestor kéa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nestor kéa is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛs.tɔʁ ke.a\. 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 psittaciforme endémique de Nouvelle-Zélande, de la famille des nestoridés, qui vit exclusivement dans les montagnes où elle se nourrit entre autres de nectar et des fruits d’agathis, un a...".
No misspelling variants are generated for nestor kéa 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 nestor kéa, spelled N-E-S-T-O-R- -K-É-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de psittaciforme endémique de Nouvelle-Zélande, de la famille des nestoridés, qui vit exclusivement dans les montagnes où elle se nourrit entre autres de nectar et des fruits d’agathis, un arbre de la famille des araucariacées, dont la forme de son bec est particulièrement bien adaptée à l'extraction des graines, et qui est d'un naturel inquisiteur auprès des humains (espèce Nestor notabilis).
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E-S-T-O-R- -K-É-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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