oie cendrée
\wa sɑ̃d.ʁe\
The verdict
“oie cendrée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, un des ancêtres des oies domestiques, grande, au plumage gris-beige, aux pattes rose chair.
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Index FR-oie-cendree · oie cendrée · French
oie cendrée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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 | oie cendrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa sɑ̃d.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
oie cendrée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa sɑ̃d.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d’oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, un des ancêtres des oies domestiques, grande, au plumage gris-beige, aux pattes rose chair.".
oie cendrée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is oie cendrée, spelled O-I-E- -C-E-N-D-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, un des ancêtres des oies domestiques, grande, au plumage gris-beige, aux pattes rose chair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oie cendrée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De toute vraisemblance, l’oie de Toulouse, en effet, parait descendre de l’oie cendrée (Amer cinereus), qui apparaît encore aujourd’hui dans le nord de l’Europe, et qui niche dans la Grande-Bretagne, en Russie et en Norvège.
Enfin, on se souvient que dans Le merveilleux voyage de Nils Holgersson à travers la Suède, les oies cendrées profitent de la proximité d'un nid d'aigle au moment de la nidification.
This word in other languages
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.