dioxine
\di.ɔk.sin\
The verdict
“dioxine” is uncommon French (frequency #75,599 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,599
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hétérocycle aromatique dont le carbocycle comporte deux atomes d'oxygène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dioxine · dioxine · French
dioxine · rank #75,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,599
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH diorama
Nearest frequency peer: diorama (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dioxine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- digérés
digérés
24,405 corpus weight
- dildo
dildo
24,404 corpus weight
- diorama
diorama
24,403 corpus weight
- dioxine
dioxine
24,402 corpus weight
- directif
directif
24,401 corpus weight
- disaster
disaster
24,400 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dioxine” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dioxine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ɔk.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dioxine” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dioxine is uncommon French at frequency #75,599 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.ɔk.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dioxine has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dioxine, spelled D-I-O-X-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hétérocycle aromatique dont le carbocycle comporte deux atomes d'oxygène.
- 2Polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxine connue pour sa toxicité.
This word in other languages
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 "dioxine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.