boîte aux ordures
\bwɑ.t‿o.z‿ɔʁ.dyʁ\
The verdict
“boîte aux ordures” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poubelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-boite-aux-ordures · boîte aux ordures · French
boîte aux ordures · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte aux ordures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwɑ.t‿o.z‿ɔʁ.dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
boîte aux ordures is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bwɑ.t‿o.z‿ɔʁ.dyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poubelle.".
boîte aux ordures has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is boîte aux ordures, spelled B-O-Î-T-E- -A-U-X- -O-R-D-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Poubelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boîte aux ordures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle nettoya l’évier, ferma la boîte aux ordures, pendit les torchons à leur place.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.