farine

\fa.ʁin\

/\fa.ʁin\/ noun

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The verdict

“farine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,319
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poudre blanche obtenue par la mouture de grains céréaliers et utilisée dans la fabrication du pain et de pâtisseries.

Corpus desk

Index FR-farine · farine · French

farine · rank #7,319 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,319
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH fiches

Nearest frequency peer: fiches (+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 « farine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « farine » 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).

farine vs fine
67% similar
farine vs faune
67% similar
farine vs frise
67% similar

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

Key facts for farine
PropertyValue
Headwordfarine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.ʁin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,319
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « farine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).farinese 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 « fiches » (#7,320), « filer » (#7,321), « essor » (#7,316). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « farine » est au #7,319. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around farine (IPA \fa.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,319 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for farine, with forms such as "afrine", "fairne", and "farien". 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, "fine", "faune", "frise", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is farine, spelled F-A-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poudre blanche obtenue par la mouture de grains céréaliers et utilisée dans la fabrication du pain et de pâtisseries.
  2. 2
    Préparation alimentaire d’origine protéique destinée aux animaux d’élevage.
  3. 3
    Farine de blé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La farine constitue, comme le lait, un aliment complet, car elle renferme toutes les substances nécessaires à la nourriture de l'homme. On y trouve en effet une matière azotée, appelée gluten, comparable au caséum, une matière grasse analogue au beurre, une matière amylacée qui correspond au sucre de lait, et enfin des sels minéraux.
  2. Les bancs d’essai automatiques de dosage des protéines dans les céréales seront vérifiés globalement à l'aide de farines de référence.

This word in other languages

flour(English)harina(Español)Mehl(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afrine
  • fairne
  • farien
  • farinne
  • farnie
  • farrine
  • ffarine
  • fraine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

afrine2fairne2farien2farinne1farnie2farrine1ffarine1fraine2
Edit distance from "farine"

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 "farine"?
"farine" is spelled F-A-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.ʁin\.
What does "farine" mean?
As a noun, "farine" means: Poudre blanche obtenue par la mouture de grains céréaliers et utilisée dans la fabrication du pain et de pâtisseries.
What words are commonly confused with "farine"?
"farine" is commonly confused with "fine", "faune", "frise". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "farine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "farine" is \fa.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "farine" come from?
"farine" 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 "farine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fiches#7,320finira#7,322grotte#7,329hubert#7,331

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

arrange8 variantsamours8 variantsvalide8 variantsvalait8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list