pygargue à tête blanche
\pi.ɡaʁɡ a tɛt blɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“pygargue à tête 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
- 23
- 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 d’Amérique du Nord, au plumage brun, sauf la tête et la queue blanches.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pygargue à tête blanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ɡaʁɡ a tɛt blɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pygargue à tête blanche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pygargue à tête blanche is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ɡaʁɡ a tɛt blɑ̃ʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pygargue à tête blanche 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 pygargue à tête blanche, spelled P-Y-G-A-R-G-U-E- -À- -T-Ê-T-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau rapace diurne (falconiforme) de la famille des accipitridés, un aigle de mer piscivore d’Amérique du Nord, au plumage brun, sauf la tête et la queue blanches.
- 2Symbole de liberté, et emblème national aux États-Unis depuis 1782, et devenu leur « oiseau officiel » en 2024.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-Y-G-A-R-G-U-E- -À- -T-Ê-T-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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