bureau de poste

/\by.ʁo də pɔst\/ noun

Letters

15 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

bureau de poste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Établissement ouvert au public qui offre des services relatifs à l’envoi du courrier, et éventuellement d’autres services. Pronounced \by.ʁo də pɔst\.

Key facts for bureau de poste
PropertyValue
Headwordbureau de poste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\by.ʁo də pɔst\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bureau de poste is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bureau de poste is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \by.ʁo də pɔst\. 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: "Établissement ouvert au public qui offre des services relatifs à l’envoi du courrier, et éventuellement d’autres services.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bureau de poste in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 bureau de poste, spelled B-U-R-E-A-U- -D-E- -P-O-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Établissement ouvert au public qui offre des services relatifs à l’envoi du courrier, et éventuellement d’autres services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bureau de poste"?
"bureau de poste" is spelled B-U-R-E-A-U- -D-E- -P-O-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \by.ʁo də pɔst\.
What does "bureau de poste" mean?
As a noun, "bureau de poste" means: Établissement ouvert au public qui offre des services relatifs à l’envoi du courrier, et éventuellement d’autres services.
How do you pronounce "bureau de poste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bureau de poste" is \by.ʁo də pɔst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bureau de poste" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.