cuisinière

\kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\

/\kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cuisinière” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,916
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui cuisine, qui prépare, qui cuit la nourriture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cuisiniere · cuisinière · French

cuisinière · rank #17,916 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,916
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH crabe

Nearest frequency peer: crabe (-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 « cuisinière »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « cuisinière » 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).

cuisinière vs cuisiniers
80% similar
cuisinière vs cuisiner
70% similar
cuisinière vs cuisinier
80% similar

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

Key facts for cuisinière
PropertyValue
Headwordcuisinière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#17,916
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuisinière »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).cuisinièrese 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 « crabe » (#17,915), « câlins » (#17,917), « dar » (#17,918). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cuisinière » est au #17,916. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around cuisinière (IPA \kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,916 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cuisinière, with forms such as "ccuisinière", "ciusinière", and "cuiisnière". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cuisiniers", "cuisiner", "cuisinier", 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 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 cuisinière, spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui cuisine, qui prépare, qui cuit la nourriture.
  2. 2
    Celle que l’on prend à gages dans une maison, un restaurant pour y faire la cuisine.
  3. 3
    Épouse d’un cuisinier.
  4. 4
    Ustensile de fer-blanc traversé par une broche, et qui sert à faire rôtir la viande.
  5. 5
    Fourneau de cuisine servant à chauffer ou faire cuire les aliments, souvent muni d’éléments chauffants sur sa surface de travail.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je me désélégantise, je me désuavise, je vais devenir une vraie cuisinière, une fermière, ou tout ce que vous voudrez, et c’est effrayant à quel point je me trouve faite pour cela.
  2. Enfin, en guise de dessert, la cuisinière avait confectionné une sorte de rabote garnie de trois pommes offertes par la bonne du curé, mademoiselle Alice.

Synonyms

👩🍳cheffecuistotegargotièrerôtisseusepoêlegazinière électriquerôtissoire

This word in other languages

cook(English)cocinera(Español)Köchin(Deutsch)fogão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccuisinière
  • ciusinière
  • cuiisnière
  • cuisiinère
  • cuisiniere
  • cuisinirèe
  • cuisinièer
  • cuisinièrre
  • cuisinnière
  • cuisinèire
  • cuisniière
  • cuissinière
  • cusiinière
  • ucisinière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ccuisinière1ciusinière2cuiisnière2cuisiinère2cuisiniere1cuisinirèe2cuisinièer2cuisinièrre1
Edit distance from "cuisinière"

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 "cuisinière"?
"cuisinière" is spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\.
What does "cuisinière" mean?
As a noun, "cuisinière" means: Celle qui cuisine, qui prépare, qui cuit la nourriture.
What words are commonly confused with "cuisinière"?
"cuisinière" is commonly confused with "cuisiniers", "cuisiner", "cuisinier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cuisinière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cuisinière" is \kɥi.zi.njɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cuisinière" come from?
"cuisinière" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conquérant#17,912commençais#17,907dirigeante#17,925challenger#17,898

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

bénévolat14 variantsillustrent14 variantstroublant14 variantslicenciés14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list