oiseau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,781
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
oiseau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Animal vertébré théropode, à deux pattes et deux ailes, ovipare, homéotherme, au corps couvert de plumes et qui possède un bec corné dépourvu de dents. Pronounced \wa.zo\. It ranks #3,781 in French word frequency. Often confused with oiseaux and Oise.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oiseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.zo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oiseau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.zo\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,781 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for oiseau, with forms such as "ioseau", "oiesau", and "oisaeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "oiseaux", "Oise", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 oiseau, spelled O-I-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal vertébré théropode, à deux pattes et deux ailes, ovipare, homéotherme, au corps couvert de plumes et qui possède un bec corné dépourvu de dents.
- 2Animal vertébré théropode, à deux pattes et deux ailes, ovipare, homéotherme, au corps couvert de plumes et qui possède un bec corné dépourvu de dents.
- 3Individu extravagant.
- 4Exercice de tir où l’on abat d’un coup de fusil ou d’un coup de flèche la figure d’un oiseau attachée au haut d’une perche.
- 5Avion.
- 6Organe sexuel mâle, pénis
- 7Sorte de hotte dont les manœuvres se servent pour porter le mortier sur leurs épaules.
- 8Oiseau de Limousin : Assemblage de planches à angle droit, munies de deux manches que l’on passe sur les épaules, et qui servait autrefois aux maçons à porter des matériaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ioseau,oiesau,oisaeu,oiseua,oisseau,osieau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oiseau
Misspelling Variants of "oiseau"
Frequency rank: #3,781 in French
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