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 September 3, 2026) - A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vitrine · vitrine · English
vitrine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitrine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɪˈtɹiːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vitrine” in English
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.
The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo[…]
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.