aspirine

/\as.pi.ʁin\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,643

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

aspirine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom courant de l’acide acétylsalicylique, anti-inflammatoire (AINS) agissant par inhibition de la cyclooxygénase-1, antipyrétique, anti douleur, anti antiagrégant plaquettaire. Pronounced \as.pi.ʁin\. Often confused with aspire and aspirant.

Key facts for aspirine
PropertyValue
Headwordaspirine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\as.pi.ʁin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#29,643
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aspirine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aspirine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.pi.ʁin\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,643 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for aspirine, with forms such as "apsirine", "asiprine", and "aspiirne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "aspire", "aspirant", "aspirent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 aspirine, spelled A-S-P-I-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom courant de l’acide acétylsalicylique, anti-inflammatoire (AINS) agissant par inhibition de la cyclooxygénase-1, antipyrétique, anti douleur, anti antiagrégant plaquettaire.
  2. 2
    Une dose de ce médicament.
  3. 3
    N’importe quel calmant.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apsirine,asiprine,aspiirne,aspirien,aspirinne,aspirnie,aspirrine,asppirine,aspriine,asspirine,sapirine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aspirine

Misspelling Variants of "aspirine"

apsirine8asiprine8aspiirne8aspirien8aspirinne9aspirnie8aspirrine9asppirine9
Misspelling Variants of "aspirine"

Frequency rank: #29,643 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aspirine"?
"aspirine" is spelled A-S-P-I-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \as.pi.ʁin\.
What does "aspirine" mean?
As a noun, "aspirine" means: Nom courant de l’acide acétylsalicylique, anti-inflammatoire (AINS) agissant par inhibition de la cyclooxygénase-1, antipyrétique, anti douleur, anti antiagrégant plaquettaire.
What words are commonly confused with "aspirine"?
"aspirine" is commonly confused with "aspire", "aspirant", "aspirent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aspirine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aspirine" is \as.pi.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aspirine" come from?
"aspirine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.