râle des genêts

/\ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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râle des genêts is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce d’oiseau des marais, un petit échassier d’Eurasie qui migre dans le sud de l’Afrique, brun-gris strié. Pronounced \ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\.

Key facts for râle des genêts
PropertyValue
Headwordrâle des genêts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

râle des genêts is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for râle des genêts is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\. 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 des marais, un petit échassier d’Eurasie qui migre dans le sud de l’Afrique, brun-gris strié.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for râle des genêts in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 râle des genêts, spelled R-Â-L-E- -D-E-S- -G-E-N-Ê-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce d’oiseau des marais, un petit échassier d’Eurasie qui migre dans le sud de l’Afrique, brun-gris strié.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "râle des genêts"?
"râle des genêts" is spelled R-Â-L-E- -D-E-S- -G-E-N-Ê-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\.
What does "râle des genêts" mean?
As a noun, "râle des genêts" means: Espèce d’oiseau des marais, un petit échassier d’Eurasie qui migre dans le sud de l’Afrique, brun-gris strié.
How do you pronounce "râle des genêts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "râle des genêts" is \ʁɑl de ʒə.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "râle des genêts" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.