fasciner
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#60,012
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
fasciner is aFrenchverb. It means: Action à distance qui passe par le regard pour nuire ou tuer, jeter le mauvais œil. Pronounced \fa.si.ne\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fasciner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.si.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fasciner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.si.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,012 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fasciner in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 fasciner, spelled F-A-S-C-I-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action à distance qui passe par le regard pour nuire ou tuer, jeter le mauvais œil.
- 2Maîtriser ou immobiliser par la fixité du regard, en parlant de certains animaux.
- 3Captiver ou attirer, en parlant de l’effet de l’éclat d’objets brillants sur certains animaux.
- 4Ensorceler par un charme qui empêche celui qui le subit de voir les choses comme elles sont.
- 5Attirer l'attention ou l'intérêt de manière intense et continue, en vertu d'un certain mystère.
- 6Charmer, conquérir ou abuser par quelque chose de séduisant.
Frequency rank: #60,012 in French
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