épicerie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,102
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
épicerie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Commerce des épices et d’un grand nombre de denrées de consommation courante. Pronounced \e.pi.sʁi\. It ranks #9,102 in French word frequency. Often confused with épiderme and épiceries.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épicerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.sʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épicerie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pi.sʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,102 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for épicerie, with forms such as "epicerie", "péicerie", and "éipcerie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "épiderme", "épiceries", "épicée", 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 épicerie, spelled É-P-I-C-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commerce des épices et d’un grand nombre de denrées de consommation courante.
- 2Magasin où se fait ce commerce.
- 3Toutes sortes d’épices, comme la cannelle, la muscade, le poivre, et aussi le sucre, le miel, le café et toutes les substances alimentaires qui venaient des pays éloignés.
- 4Rayon d’une grande surface commerciale (supermarché, hypermarché) qui regroupe les produits alimentaires, condiments, conserves…
- 5Supermarché ou marché.
- 6Ensemble des achats fait pour la consommation familiale courante, généralement hebdomadaire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epicerie,péicerie,éipcerie,épcierie,épiccerie,épiceire,épicerei,épicerrie,épicreie,épiecrie,éppicerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for épicerie
Misspelling Variants of "épicerie"
Frequency rank: #9,102 in French
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