note de frais
\nɔt də fʁe\
The verdict
“note de frais” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Facture comptabilisant des frais professionnels que l’on désire se faire rembourser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | note de frais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔt də fʁe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “note de frais” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for note de frais is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔt də fʁe\. 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: "Facture comptabilisant des frais professionnels que l’on désire se faire rembourser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for note de frais 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 note de frais, spelled N-O-T-E- -D-E- -F-R-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Facture comptabilisant des frais professionnels que l’on désire se faire rembourser.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-O-T-E- -D-E- -F-R-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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