boîte aux lettres morte
\bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ mɔʁt\
The verdict
“boîte aux lettres morte” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cache utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu’ils se rencontrent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte aux lettres morte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ mɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boîte aux lettres morte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boîte aux lettres morte is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ mɔʁt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cache utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu’ils se rencontrent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boîte aux lettres morte 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 boîte aux lettres morte, spelled B-O-Î-T-E- -A-U-X- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S- -M-O-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cache utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu’ils se rencontrent.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-Î-T-E- -A-U-X- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S- -M-O-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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