box
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,314
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
box is aFrenchnoun. It means: Compartiment disposé dans les écuries ou les étables pour isoler les animaux et les y tenir libres et sans attaches. Pronounced \bɔks\. It ranks #4,314 in French word frequency. Often confused with by and bu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | box |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for box is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɔks\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,314 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for box in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 box, spelled B-O-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Compartiment disposé dans les écuries ou les étables pour isoler les animaux et les y tenir libres et sans attaches.
- 2Compartiment pour détenir les prévenus dans une cour de justice.
- 3Compartiment pour garer une voiture dans un endroit fermé.
- 4Grande caisse en métal, en plastique ou en bois, sur pieds ou palette, pour le rangement, le déplacement et le transport de produits.
- 5Petite section semi-fermée à une table, dans un restaurant.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #4,314 in French
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