eine
\ˈaɪ̯.nə\
The verdict
“eine” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,798) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,798
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin (accusatif ou nominatif) de ein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eine · eine · French
eine · rank #32,798 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,798
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH détendez
Nearest frequency peer: détendez (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « eine »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- déplorables
déplorables
67,206 corpus weight
- désuétude
désuétude
67,205 corpus weight
- détendez
détendez
67,204 corpus weight
- eine
eine
67,203 corpus weight
- Elmaleh
Elmaleh
67,202 corpus weight
- embryonnaire
embryonnaire
67,201 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « eine » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | eine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \ˈaɪ̯.nə\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « eine »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eine is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "été", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \ˈaɪ̯.nə\. Frequency #32,798 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Féminin (accusatif ou nominatif) de ein.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for eine, with forms such as "eien", "einne", and "enie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "été", "end", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is eine, spelled E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin (accusatif ou nominatif) de ein.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eien
- einne
- enie
- iene
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eine - 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 "eine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).