apostille
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
apostille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Addition faite à la marge d’un écrit ou au bas d’une lettre Pronounced \a.pɔs.tij\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apostille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pɔs.tij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for apostille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pɔs.tij\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for apostille in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 apostille, spelled A-P-O-S-T-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Addition faite à la marge d’un écrit ou au bas d’une lettre
- 2Recommandations que l'on écrit à la marge ou au bas d’un mémoire, d’une pétition, d'un manuscrit.
- 3Cachet officiel prouvant à destination d’une autorité étrangère qu’un autre cachet apposé sur un document a un caractère officiel.
- 4Instruction écrite d’enquête judiciaire envoyée par le parquet ou un juge d’instruction à la police (par exemple à un apostilleur) ou à un autre service d’enquête.
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