téléphone public

/\te.le.fɔn py.blik\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

téléphone public is aFrenchnoun. It means: Téléphone disposant d'un moyen de paiement pour régler la communication. Pronounced \te.le.fɔn py.blik\.

Key facts for téléphone public
PropertyValue
Headwordtéléphone public
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\te.le.fɔn py.blik\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for téléphone public is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.le.fɔn py.blik\. 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: "Téléphone disposant d'un moyen de paiement pour régler la communication.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for téléphone public 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 téléphone public, spelled T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E- -P-U-B-L-I-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Téléphone disposant d'un moyen de paiement pour régler la communication.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "téléphone public"?
"téléphone public" is spelled T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E- -P-U-B-L-I-C. The IPA pronunciation is \te.le.fɔn py.blik\.
What does "téléphone public" mean?
As a noun, "téléphone public" means: Téléphone disposant d'un moyen de paiement pour régler la communication.
How do you pronounce "téléphone public"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "téléphone public" is \te.le.fɔn py.blik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "téléphone public" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.