vitrine
/vɪˈtɹiːn/
"vitrine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vitrine” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitrine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɪˈtɹiːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vitrine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vitrine is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɪˈtɹiːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vitrine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”). The correct English form is vitrine, spelled V-I-T-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
Etymology
Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
This word in other languages
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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Using “vitrine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is V-I-T-R-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /vɪˈtɹiːn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.