boite aux lettres
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17 characters
Language
French
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boite aux lettres is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coffret où le public met les lettres que la poste se charge de faire parvenir à leur adresse. Pronounced \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boite aux lettres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for boite aux lettres is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for boite aux 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 aux lettres, spelled B-O-I-T-E- -A-U-X- -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 public met les lettres que la poste se charge de faire parvenir à leur adresse.
- 2Boite où le facteur dépose le courrier d’un individu.
- 3Dans une messagerie électronique, espace de mémoire réservé à quelqu'un, dans lequel sont conservés les messages qui lui sont destinés et éventuellement les messages qu'il envoie.
- 4Fissure très large offrant un passage étroit entre les deux cotés d’une roche.
- 5Ancrage.
- 6Système d’échange d'information entre un service de renseignement et un agent basé sur la transmission d'un message par un tiers (boite aux lettres vivante) ou le dépôt du message dans un emplacement pré-déterminé (boite aux lettres morte) en vue d'une récupération.
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