boîte de dépôt
\bwat də de.po\
The verdict
“boîte de dépôt” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Boîte dans laquelle un objet peut être déposé par une personne pour être récupéré plus tard par une autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boîte de dépôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bwat də de.po\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boîte de dépôt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for boîte de dépôt is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bwat də de.po\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for boîte de dépôt in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is boîte de dépôt, spelled B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-P-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Boîte dans laquelle un objet peut être déposé par une personne pour être récupéré plus tard par une autre.
- 2Dossier informatique dans lequel des fichiers peuvent être glissés-déposés depuis d’autres ordinateurs sur le réseau.
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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.
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Using “boîte de dépôt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-O-Î-T-E- -D-E- -D-É-P-Ô-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bwat də de.po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.