par retour de courrier
\paʁ ʁə.tuʁ də ku.ʁje\
The verdict
“par retour de courrier” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Réponse donnée dès réception d’un courrier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | par retour de courrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \paʁ ʁə.tuʁ də ku.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “par retour de courrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for par retour de courrier is 22 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ ʁə.tuʁ də ku.ʁje\. 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: "Réponse donnée dès réception d’un courrier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for par retour de courrier 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 par retour de courrier, spelled P-A-R- -R-E-T-O-U-R- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Réponse donnée dès réception d’un courrier.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R- -R-E-T-O-U-R- -D-E- -C-O-U-R-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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