sarcelle d’hiver
\saʁ.sɛl d‿i.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“sarcelle d’hiver” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, petit canard de surface, qui a un miroir vert (côté interne) et noir (côté externe) sur l’aile, encadré par des bandes blanches, le ventre blan...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarcelle d’hiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saʁ.sɛl d‿i.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sarcelle d’hiver” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sarcelle d’hiver is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \saʁ.sɛl d‿i.vɛʁ\. 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 palmipède de la famille des anatidés, petit canard de surface, qui a un miroir vert (côté interne) et noir (côté externe) sur l’aile, encadré par des bandes blanches, le ventre blan...".
sarcelle d’hiver doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sarcelle d’hiver, spelled S-A-R-C-E-L-L-E- -D-’-H-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau palmipède de la famille des anatidés, petit canard de surface, qui a un miroir vert (côté interne) et noir (côté externe) sur l’aile, encadré par des bandes blanches, le ventre blanc et les pattes grisâtres, migrateur partiel.
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 “sarcelle d’hiver”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-R-C-E-L-L-E- -D-’-H-I-V-E-R - 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.