aspirine

\as.pi.ʁin\

/\as.pi.ʁin\/ noun

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The verdict

“aspirine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,643
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant de l’acide acétylsalicylique, anti-inflammatoire (AINS) agissant par inhibition de la cyclooxygénase-1, antipyrétique, anti douleur, anti antiagrégant plaquettaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aspirine · aspirine · French

aspirine · rank #29,643 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,643
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assiduité

Nearest frequency peer: assiduité (+1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « aspirine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « aspirine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aspirine vs aspire
75% similar
aspirine vs aspirant
75% similar
aspirine vs aspirent
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aspirine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).aspirinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « assiduité » (#29,644), « apt » (#29,641), « assimilée » (#29,645). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aspirine » est au #29,643. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around aspirine (IPA \as.pi.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,643 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspirine, with forms such as "apsirine", "asiprine", and "aspiirne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "aspire", "aspirant", "aspirent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is aspirine, spelled A-S-P-I-R-I-N-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aspirine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je laisse à la garde d’un lieutenant d’artillerie quatre droguistes à bicyclette, d’allure allemande, qui prétendent aller à Mulhouse, leurs communes manquant d’aspirine.
  2. Fernand, cette fois, n’y coupa pas d’une gifle, et hurla qu’il avait la migraine et qu’il lui fallait de la Véganine ou de l’Optalidon, l’aspirine lui donnant des aigreurs d’estomac, auquel cas, par parenthèse, la Tétrasodine était tout indiquée.

Synonyms

acide acétylsalicylique

This word in other languages

aspirin(English)aspirina(Español)Aspirin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apsirine
  • asiprine
  • aspiirne
  • aspirien
  • aspirinne
  • aspirnie
  • aspirrine
  • asppirine
  • aspriine
  • asspirine
  • sapirine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspirine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

apsirine2asiprine2aspiirne2aspirien2aspirinne1aspirnie2aspirrine1asppirine1
Edit distance from "aspirine"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aspirine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

assortis#29,646appelais#29,637attriste#29,649analysée#29,633

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

assiduité11 variantsassimilée11 variantsagressés11 variantsbrouhaha11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list