caisse en libre service
\kɛ.s‿ɑ̃ libʁ sɛʁ.vis\
The verdict
“caisse en libre service” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Caisse qui permet à un client d’enregistrer ses achats et d’en effectuer le paiement lui-même.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caisse en libre service |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛ.s‿ɑ̃ libʁ sɛʁ.vis\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caisse en libre service” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for caisse en libre service is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɛ.s‿ɑ̃ libʁ sɛʁ.vis\. 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: "Caisse qui permet à un client d’enregistrer ses achats et d’en effectuer le paiement lui-même.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caisse en libre service 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 caisse en libre service, spelled C-A-I-S-S-E- -E-N- -L-I-B-R-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caisse qui permet à un client d’enregistrer ses achats et d’en effectuer le paiement lui-même.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-I-S-S-E- -E-N- -L-I-B-R-E- -S-E-R-V-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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