boite aux lettres vivante
\bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ vi.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“boite aux lettres vivante” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Personne utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu'ils se rencontrent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boite aux lettres vivante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ vi.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boite aux lettres vivante” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boite aux lettres vivante is 25 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwa.t‿o lɛtʁ vi.vɑ̃t\. 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: "Personne utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu'ils se rencontrent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boite aux lettres vivante 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 vivante, spelled B-O-I-T-E- -A-U-X- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S- -V-I-V-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne utilisée pour échanger des biens entre deux individus sans qu'ils se rencontrent.
Antonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is B-O-I-T-E- -A-U-X- -L-E-T-T-R-E-S- -V-I-V-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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