poste de secours

/\pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

poste de secours is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dispositif préventif mis en place pour couvrir un événement saisonnier ou ponctuel. Pronounced \pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\.

Key facts for poste de secours
PropertyValue
Headwordposte de secours
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

poste de secours is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for poste de secours is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\. 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: "Dispositif préventif mis en place pour couvrir un événement saisonnier ou ponctuel.".

No misspelling variants are generated for poste de secours 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 poste de secours, spelled P-O-S-T-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dispositif préventif mis en place pour couvrir un événement saisonnier ou ponctuel.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poste de secours"?
"poste de secours" is spelled P-O-S-T-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\.
What does "poste de secours" mean?
As a noun, "poste de secours" means: Dispositif préventif mis en place pour couvrir un événement saisonnier ou ponctuel.
How do you pronounce "poste de secours"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poste de secours" is \pɔs.tə də sə.kuʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poste de secours" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.