carnet de timbres
The verdict
“carnet de timbres” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lot de timbres postaux fixé à un même support.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carnet de timbres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.nɛ de tɛ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carnet de timbres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carnet de timbres is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.nɛ de tɛ̃bʁ\. 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: "Lot de timbres postaux fixé à un même support.".
No misspelling variants are generated for carnet de timbres 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 carnet de timbres, spelled C-A-R-N-E-T- -D-E- -T-I-M-B-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lot de timbres postaux fixé à un même support.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-N-E-T- -D-E- -T-I-M-B-R-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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