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mail box

noun

mail box is spelled M-A-I-L-B-O-X: 7 letters. As a noun, mail box means “Alternative form of mailbox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mail box is mail-boxes or mail boxes.

How many letters and syllables are in mail box?

Letters7: M-A-I-L-B-O-X
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

Words people confuse with mail box

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: mailbox (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of mail box

  • mail-boxes plural
  • mail boxes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mail box mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of mailbox.

noun

as mail-box
  1. 1

    Alternative form of mailbox.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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