codéine
\kɔ.de.in\
The verdict
“codéine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,377. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,377
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alcaloïde que l’on tire de l’opium. Cette molécule est utilisée en pharmacie pour sa propriété antitussive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-codeine · codéine · French
codéine · rank #44,377 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,377
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clignote
Nearest frequency peer: clignote (-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 « codéine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- clarifie
clarifie
55,629 corpus weight
- Claudie
Claudie
55,627 corpus weight
- clignote
clignote
55,625 corpus weight
- codéine
codéine
55,624 corpus weight
- combattait
combattait
55,622 corpus weight
- compresse
compresse
55,620 corpus weight
What this shows « codéine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | codéine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.de.in\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « codéine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around codéine (IPA \kɔ.de.in\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,377 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alcaloïde que l’on tire de l’opium. Cette molécule est utilisée en pharmacie pour sa propriété antitussive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for codéine, with forms such as "ccodéine", "cdoéine", and "coddéine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Coline", "colline", "Cousine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is codéine, spelled C-O-D-É-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alcaloïde que l’on tire de l’opium. Cette molécule est utilisée en pharmacie pour sa propriété antitussive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how codéine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils disent : "Madame la comtesse est grosse, il est probable que sa délivrance déterminera une crise favorable. Qu'on la tienne en bon air, à la campagne, du petit-lait, de la codéine…"
Ces substances, comme la codéine qui se transforme en acétylcodéine par exemple, peuvent également subir des modifications structurelles lors des différentes étapes d’extraction, de transformation et de purification du stupéfiant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccodéine
- cdoéine
- coddéine
- codeine
- codiéne
- codéien
- codéinne
- codénie
- coédine
- ocdéine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of codéine - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).