oiseau rare
\wa.zo ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“oiseau rare” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne ou chose très recherchée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oiseau rare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.zo ʁaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oiseau rare” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for oiseau rare is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wa.zo ʁaʁ\. 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: "Personne ou chose très recherchée.".
oiseau rare doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is oiseau rare, spelled O-I-S-E-A-U- -R-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne ou chose très recherchée.
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.
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Using “oiseau rare”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-I-S-E-A-U- -R-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.