cantine

\kɑ̃.tin\

/\kɑ̃.tin\/ noun

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The verdict

“cantine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,651. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,651
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit coffre divisé en compartiments pour porter des bouteilles ou des aliments.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cantine · cantine · French

cantine · rank #10,651 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,651
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH cancers

Nearest frequency peer: cancers (-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 « cantine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cantine » 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).

cantine vs catin
71% similar
cantine vs canton
71% similar
cantine vs Carine
57% similar

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

Key facts for cantine
PropertyValue
Headwordcantine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɑ̃.tin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,651
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cantine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.cantinese 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 « cancers » (#10,650), « Bulgarie » (#10,649), « catholicisme » (#10,653). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cantine » est au #10,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around cantine (IPA \kɑ̃.tin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,651 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cantine, with forms such as "acntine", "canitne", and "canntine". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "catin", "canton", "Carine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cantine, spelled C-A-N-T-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit coffre divisé en compartiments pour porter des bouteilles ou des aliments.
  2. 2
    Lieu de repas dans les écoles, les entreprises, etc.
  3. 3
    Petite caisse dont les officiers en campagne se servent pour transporter leurs bagages personnels.
  4. 4
    Il se dit aussi, dans les casernes, dans les ateliers, dans les écoles, dans les prisons, etc., du lieu polyvalent où l’on vend à boire, à manger ou d'autres produits du quotidien.
  5. 5
    Flacon.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ce midi je mange à la cantine.
  2. J’ai cru aux villages de vacances familiaux, rien que familiaux, avec les deux cantines, la hurlante et poisseuse, celle des enfants, la mortelle, des parents, avec les qu’est-ce que vous faites cet après-midi, on est bien ici, moi je suis visiteur médical et vous.

This word in other languages

canteen(English)cantina(Español)Kantine(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acntine
  • canitne
  • canntine
  • cantien
  • cantinne
  • cantnie
  • canttine
  • catnine
  • ccantine
  • cnatine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cantine - 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.

acntine2canitne2canntine1cantien2cantinne1cantnie2canttine1catnine2
Edit distance from "cantine"

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 "cantine"?
"cantine" is spelled C-A-N-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɑ̃.tin\.
What does "cantine" mean?
As a noun, "cantine" means: Petit coffre divisé en compartiments pour porter des bouteilles ou des aliments.
What words are commonly confused with "cantine"?
"cantine" is commonly confused with "catin", "canton", "Carine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cantine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cantine" is \kɑ̃.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cantine" come from?
"cantine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cancers#10,650briller#10,648Bourges#10,647balader#10,642

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

avertir10 variantscommunal10 variantsartisan10 variantsadorent10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list