poste
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#695
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Établissement de chevaux qui était autrefois placé de distance en distance, pour le service des voyageurs. Pronounced \pɔst\. It ranks #695 in French word frequency. Often confused with pot and pote.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poste is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔst\. Corpus data places it at rank #695 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poste, with forms such as "opste", "poset", and "posste". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pot", "pote", "pute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 poste, spelled P-O-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Établissement de chevaux qui était autrefois placé de distance en distance, pour le service des voyageurs.
- 2Manière de voyager avec des chevaux de poste.
- 3Maison où étaient les chevaux de poste.
- 4Mesure de chemin fixée communément à deux lieues.
- 5Mesure de chemin fixée communément à deux lieues.
- 6Administration publique qui assure le transport des correspondances.
- 7Le courrier qui porte les lettres.
- 8Maison, bureau où se font les diverses opérations postales.
- 9Ornement composé de motifs d’enroulements et de volutes, formant une moulure qu’on place ordinairement sur les plinthes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opste,poset,posste,postte,potse,pposte,psote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poste
Misspelling Variants of "poste"
Frequency rank: #695 in French
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