carte postale
The verdict
“carte postale” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Carte permettant l’envoi de courrier sans enveloppe, dont l’un des côtés est habituellement consacré à l’adresse et à la correspondance, l’autre étant habituellement illustré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carte postale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaʁt pɔs.tal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carte postale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for carte postale is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁt pɔs.tal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for carte postale 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 carte postale, spelled C-A-R-T-E- -P-O-S-T-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carte permettant l’envoi de courrier sans enveloppe, dont l’un des côtés est habituellement consacré à l’adresse et à la correspondance, l’autre étant habituellement illustré.
- 2Lieu ou paysage tellement beau qu’il ressemble au décor d’une carte postale.
- 3Court reportage ou courte présentation.
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Using “carte postale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-R-T-E- -P-O-S-T-A-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kaʁt pɔs.tal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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