outarde
\u.taʁd\
The verdict
“outarde” is uncommon French (frequency #95,135 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,135
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier terrestre, trapu, de taille moyenne à grande, au long cou et longues pattes. Son bec pointu et ses pattes s'apparentent à ceux d'une poule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-outarde · outarde · French
outarde · rank #95,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,135
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orthogonaux
Nearest frequency peer: orthogonaux (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « outarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orientait
orientait
4,869 corpus weight
- ornon
ornon
4,868 corpus weight
- orthogonaux
orthogonaux
4,867 corpus weight
- outarde
outarde
4,866 corpus weight
- overtime
overtime
4,865 corpus weight
- palus
palus
4,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « outarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | outarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.taʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « outarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
outarde is uncommon French at frequency #95,135 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \u.taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for outarde in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is outarde, spelled O-U-T-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier terrestre, trapu, de taille moyenne à grande, au long cou et longues pattes. Son bec pointu et ses pattes s'apparentent à ceux d'une poule.
- 2Synonyme familier de bernache du Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how outarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chair de l’outarde est plus dure que celle de l’oie ; mais elle est de bon goût et délicate, lorsque l’outarde est fort jeune : on doit la laisser mortifier long-temps ; autrement elle est dure et de difficile digestion.
Heureusement, Robert découvrit un nid d’outardes, et dans ce nid, une douzaine de gros œufs qu’Olbinett fit cuire sous la cendre chaude.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).