zeuzère du poirier

noun

The verdict

“zeuzère du poirier” 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
18
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Un grand insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des cossidés (Cossidae) dont les ailes sont blanches, décorées de taches bleuâtres.

Key facts for zeuzère du poirier
PropertyValue
Headwordzeuzère du poirier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “zeuzère du poirier” sits in French frequency

zeuzère du poirier falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for zeuzère du poirier is 18 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "Un grand insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des cossidés (Cossidae) dont les ailes sont blanches, décorées de taches bleuâtres.".

No misspelling variants are generated for zeuzère du poirier 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 zeuzère du poirier, spelled Z-E-U-Z-È-R-E- -D-U- -P-O-I-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un grand insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des cossidés (Cossidae) dont les ailes sont blanches, décorées de taches bleuâtres.

Synonyms

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zeuzère du poirier"?
"zeuzère du poirier" is spelled Z-E-U-Z-È-R-E- -D-U- -P-O-I-R-I-E-R.
What does "zeuzère du poirier" mean?
As a noun, "zeuzère du poirier" means: Un grand insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des cossidés (Cossidae) dont les ailes sont blanches, décorées de taches bleuâtres.
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"zeuzère du poirier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “zeuzère du poirier”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is Z-E-U-Z-È-R-E- -D-U- -P-O-I-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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