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Post/poste/postent/postes/posts

"Post" is a name; "poste" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

Data vintage 2026-05-06

Grammar picks the spelling

Same sound, different grammar: "Post" arrives as a name, while "poste" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

Shared stem "post" then splits - "Post" (4 letters) vs "poste" (5).
Shared stem "post" then splits - "Post" (4 letters) vs "postent" (7).
Shared stem "post" then splits - "Post" (4 letters) vs "postes" (6).
Shared stem "post" then splits - "Post" (4 letters) vs "posts" (5).
Shared stem "poste" then splits - "poste" (5 letters) vs "postent" (7).
Shared stem "poste" then splits - "poste" (5 letters) vs "postes" (6).
Single-letter fork: "poste" keeps e, "posts" writes s at letter 5.
Shared stem "poste" then splits - "postent" (7 letters) vs "postes" (6).
Shared stem "post" then splits - "postent" (7 letters) vs "posts" (5).
Shared stem "post" then splits - "postes" (6 letters) vs "posts" (5).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across Post, poste, postent, postes, posts: opst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

Post
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory opst · no private letters vs siblings
poste
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCV
Inventory eopst · private e
postent
7 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVCC
Inventory enopst · private en
postes
6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC
Inventory eopst · private e
posts
5 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCCC
Inventory opst · no private letters vs siblings

Pick the spelling from the meaning

Write "Post" when you mean: Nom de famille allemand, néerlandais.
Write "poste" when you mean: Établissement de chevaux qui était autrefois placé de distance en distance, pour le service des voyageurs.
Write "postent" when you mean: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de poster.
Write "postes" when you mean: Pluriel de poste.
Write "posts" when you mean: Pluriel de post.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

Post ← opst · posst · postt · ppost · psot
poste ← opste · poset · posste · postte · potse · pposte
postent ← opstent · posetnt · posstent · postennt · postentt · postetn
postes ← opstes · posets · posstes · postess · postse · posttes
posts ← opsts · possts · postss · postts · pposts · psots

Each spelling

Post

name · /\pɔst\/ · #1,966 frequency

Nom de famille allemand, néerlandais.

poste

noun · /\pɔst\/ · #695 frequency

Établissement de chevaux qui était autrefois placé de distance en distance, pour le service des voyageurs.

postent

verb · /\pɔst\/ · #22,655 frequency

Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de poster.

postes

noun · /\pɔst\/ · #2,192 frequency

Pluriel de poste.

posts

noun · /\pɔst\/ · #15,215 frequency

Pluriel de post.