# routine

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹuːˈtiːn/ · frequency rank #3,844

## Definitions
1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.
4. A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
5. A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

## Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via.
Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).

## Easily confused with
- **routing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/routine-vs-routing)
- **routinely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/routine-vs-routinely)
- **route** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/route-vs-routine)
- **rooting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rooting-vs-routine)
- **rotting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rotting-vs-routine)
- **rousing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rousing-vs-routine)
- **romaine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/romaine-vs-routine)

## Common misspellings (9)
`orutine`, `rotuine`, `rouitne`, `routien`, `routinne`, `routnie`, `routtine`, `rroutine`, `ruotine`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/routine