cuisine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,474
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
cuisine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce où l’on prépare et fait cuire les aliments. Pronounced \kɥi.zin\. It ranks #1,474 in French word frequency. Often confused with cuisse and culmine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuisine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.zin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuisine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɥi.zin\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,474 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuisine, with forms such as "ccuisine", "ciusine", and "cuiisne". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "cuisse", "culmine", "cuisiner", and more, 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 cuisine, spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce où l’on prépare et fait cuire les aliments.
- 2Ensemble du personnel travaillant dans cette pièce à l’élaboration des plats.
- 3Ensemble d’ustensiles servant à préparer les aliments et qu’on peut transporter d’un lieu dans un autre.
- 4Ordinaire d’une maison, repas qu’on y prépare habituellement.
- 5Action de préparer à manger.
- 6Art d’apprêter les mets, les aliments.
- 7Manœuvre ; intrigue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuisine,ciusine,cuiisne,cuisien,cuisinne,cuisnie,cuissine,cusiine,ucisine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuisine
Misspelling Variants of "cuisine"
Frequency rank: #1,474 in French
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