case postale
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12 characters
Language
French
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case postale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Boîte aux lettres nominative située au bureau de poste, disponible sur demande, qui permet de distinguer l’adresse postale de l’adresse physique du destinataire. Pronounced \kaz pɔs.tal\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | case postale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kaz pɔs.tal\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for case postale is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaz pɔs.tal\. 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: "Boîte aux lettres nominative située au bureau de poste, disponible sur demande, qui permet de distinguer l’adresse postale de l’adresse physique du destinataire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for case 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 case postale, spelled C-A-S-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
- 1Boîte aux lettres nominative située au bureau de poste, disponible sur demande, qui permet de distinguer l’adresse postale de l’adresse physique du destinataire.
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