cuisinier
\kɥi.zi.nje\
The verdict
“cuisinier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,559. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,559
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prépare, qui cuit la nourriture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuisinier · cuisinier · French
cuisinier · rank #11,559 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,559
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH créatif
Nearest frequency peer: créatif (-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 « cuisinier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croisée
croisée
88,445 corpus weight
- crus
crus
88,444 corpus weight
- créatif
créatif
88,443 corpus weight
- cuisinier
cuisinier
88,442 corpus weight
- Dennis
Dennis
88,440 corpus weight
- devrions
devrions
88,439 corpus weight
What this shows « cuisinier » 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 | cuisinier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.zi.nje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuisinier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cuisinier (IPA \kɥi.zi.nje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,559 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cuisinier, with forms such as "ccuisinier", "ciusinier", and "cuiisnier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "cuisinière", "cuisiniers", "cuisine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 cuisinier, spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prépare, qui cuit la nourriture.
- 2Celui que l’on prend à gages dans une maison, un restaurant pour y faire la cuisine.
- 3Mouchard, espion.
- 4Personne qui fabrique du crack à partir de la cocaïne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cuisinier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants s’amuseront énormément à préparer les recettes présentées dans "Les petits cuisiniers", et ils se feront un plaisir de déguster leur chef-d’œuvre.
Cependant, le premier dîner des Goncourt ne fut servi que le 26 février 1903, au Grand Hôtel, préparé par le célèbre cuisinier, on devrait dire « cuisinologue », Auguste Escoffier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuisinier
- ciusinier
- cuiisnier
- cuisiiner
- cuisineir
- cuisinierr
- cuisinire
- cuisinnier
- cuisniier
- cuissinier
- cusiinier
- ucisinier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cuisinier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cuisinier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).