quetzal resplendissant
\kɛt.zal ʁɛs.plɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“quetzal resplendissant” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Oiseau de couleur vert et rouge de la famille des Trogonidae, il est l'emblème des armoiries du Guatemala et donne également son nom à la monnaie du pays.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quetzal resplendissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛt.zal ʁɛs.plɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quetzal resplendissant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for quetzal resplendissant is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛt.zal ʁɛs.plɑ̃.di.sɑ̃\. 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: "Oiseau de couleur vert et rouge de la famille des Trogonidae, il est l'emblème des armoiries du Guatemala et donne également son nom à la monnaie du pays.".
No misspelling variants are generated for quetzal resplendissant 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 quetzal resplendissant, spelled Q-U-E-T-Z-A-L- -R-E-S-P-L-E-N-D-I-S-S-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de couleur vert et rouge de la famille des Trogonidae, il est l'emblème des armoiries du Guatemala et donne également son nom à la monnaie du pays.
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-E-T-Z-A-L- -R-E-S-P-L-E-N-D-I-S-S-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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