boite à lettres
Letters
15 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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boite à lettres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coffret où le facteur dépose le courrier d’un individu. Pronounced \bwa.t‿a lɛtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boite à lettres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.t‿a lɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for boite à lettres is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwa.t‿a lɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for boite à lettres 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 boite à lettres, spelled B-O-I-T-E- -À- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coffret où le facteur dépose le courrier d’un individu.
- 2Dans une messagerie électronique, espace de mémoire réservé à un abonné, dans lequel sont conservés les messages qui lui sont destinés et éventuellement les messages qu'il envoie.
- 3Étroiture dont la forme rappelle celle de l'ouverture d'une boite à lettres, c'est-à-dire nettement plus longue que haute et suivie d'une pente ou d'un à pic.
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Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: