pygargue à queue blanche
\pi.ɡaʁɡ a kø blɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“pygargue à queue blanche” 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) - Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un aigle de mer piscivore, grand, à queue courte cunéiforme blanche, au plumage brun foncé sauf la tête et la base du co...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pygargue à queue blanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ɡaʁɡ a kø blɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pygargue à queue blanche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pygargue à queue blanche is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ɡaʁɡ a kø blɑ̃ʃ\. 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: "Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un aigle de mer piscivore, grand, à queue courte cunéiforme blanche, au plumage brun foncé sauf la tête et la base du co...".
pygargue à queue blanche has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pygargue à queue blanche, spelled P-Y-G-A-R-G-U-E- -À- -Q-U-E-U-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un aigle de mer piscivore, grand, à queue courte cunéiforme blanche, au plumage brun foncé sauf la tête et la base du cou plus clairs.
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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 “pygargue à queue blanche”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-Y-G-A-R-G-U-E- -À- -Q-U-E-U-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.