oiseau de mauvais augure
\wa.zo də mo.vɛ.z‿o.ɡyʁ\
The verdict
“oiseau de mauvais augure” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Oiseau qui serait de mauvais présage ; oiseau de malheur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oiseau de mauvais augure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.zo də mo.vɛ.z‿o.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oiseau de mauvais augure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oiseau de mauvais augure is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.zo də mo.vɛ.z‿o.ɡyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for oiseau de mauvais augure 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 oiseau de mauvais augure, spelled O-I-S-E-A-U- -D-E- -M-A-U-V-A-I-S- -A-U-G-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau qui serait de mauvais présage ; oiseau de malheur.
- 2Personne ou évènement qui serait de mauvais présage.
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- The one correct French spelling is O-I-S-E-A-U- -D-E- -M-A-U-V-A-I-S- -A-U-G-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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