lettre de motivation

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lettre de motivation is 20 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.tʁə də mɔ.ti.va.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Lettre courte et concise à destination d’une personne ayant la fonction de directeur des ressources humaines (une entreprise, une association, etc.) qui permet à un candidat (chercheur d’emploi, st...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lettre de motivation 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 lettre de motivation, spelled L-E-T-T-R-E- -D-E- -M-O-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.