talève sultane
\ta.lɛv syl.tan\
The verdict
“talève sultane” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce d'oiseau petit échassier, de l’Ancien Monde, d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande, au plumage brillant et au bec rouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | talève sultane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.lɛv syl.tan\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “talève sultane” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for talève sultane is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.lɛv syl.tan\. 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 petit échassier, de l’Ancien Monde, d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande, au plumage brillant et au bec rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for talève sultane 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 talève sultane, spelled T-A-L-È-V-E- -S-U-L-T-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d'oiseau petit échassier, de l’Ancien Monde, d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Zélande, au plumage brillant et au bec rouge.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-L-È-V-E- -S-U-L-T-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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