oiseau des tempêtes
\wa.zo dɛ tɑ̃.pɛt\
The verdict
“oiseau des tempêtes” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs procellariiformes, et en particulier des pétrels-tempête, et de quelques puffins et albatros (oiseaux).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oiseau des tempêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.zo dɛ tɑ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oiseau des tempêtes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oiseau des tempêtes is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.zo dɛ tɑ̃.pɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for oiseau des tempêtes 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 des tempêtes, spelled O-I-S-E-A-U- -D-E-S- -T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de plusieurs procellariiformes, et en particulier des pétrels-tempête, et de quelques puffins et albatros (oiseaux).
- 2L'un des noms vernaculaires des pétrels-tempête, petits oiseaux de l'ordre des procellariiformes et de la famille des hydrobatidés.
- 3Synonyme de goéland (oiseau).
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.
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