pie bavarde
\pi ba.vaʁd\
The verdict
“pie bavarde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de petit oiseau passereau de taille moyenne, d’Eurasie, du nord-ouest de l’Afrique et d’Amérique du Nord, pie au plumage noir et blanc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pie bavarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi ba.vaʁd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pie bavarde” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pie bavarde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi ba.vaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de petit oiseau passereau de taille moyenne, d’Eurasie, du nord-ouest de l’Afrique et d’Amérique du Nord, pie au plumage noir et blanc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pie bavarde, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pie bavarde, spelled P-I-E- -B-A-V-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau de taille moyenne, d’Eurasie, du nord-ouest de l’Afrique et d’Amérique du Nord, pie au plumage noir et blanc.
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 “pie bavarde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-I-E- -B-A-V-A-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pi ba.vaʁd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.