magasiner

\ma.ɡa.zi.ne\

/\ma.ɡa.zi.ne\/ verb

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The verdict

“magasiner” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,387
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire les magasins, faire du lèche-vitrine, sans obligatoirement acheter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-magasiner · magasiner · French

magasiner · rank #39,387 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,387
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Maes

Nearest frequency peer: Maes (-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 « magasiner »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « magasiner » 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).

magasiner vs magazine
78% similar
magasiner vs magasins
78% similar
magasiner vs magazines
78% similar

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

Key facts for magasiner
PropertyValue
Headwordmagasiner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ma.ɡa.zi.ne\
Letters9
Frequency rank#39,387
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magasiner »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).magasinerse 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 « Maes » (#39,386), « magicienne » (#39,388), « Magritte » (#39,389). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « magasiner » est au #39,387. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around magasiner (IPA \ma.ɡa.zi.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,387 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for magasiner, with forms such as "amgasiner", "maagsiner", and "magaisner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "magazine", "magasins", "magazines", and more, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is magasiner, spelled M-A-G-A-S-I-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire les magasins, faire du lèche-vitrine, sans obligatoirement acheter.
  2. 2
    Faire des démarches pour obtenir les meilleures conditions et le meilleur prix dans la recherche d’un produit ou d’un service, sans nécessairement aller dans les magasins.
  3. 3
    Aller dans divers magasins pour trouver un produit particulier en cherchant celui qui convient le mieux, au meilleur prix.
  4. 4
    S’adresser à divers commerces (autres que des magasins, et en se déplaçant ou non) pour obtenir un produit ou un service aux meilleures conditions possibles.
  5. 5
    Aller dans divers magasins pour trouver un produit particulier en cherchant celui qui nous convient le mieux, au meilleur prix.
  6. 6
    Chercher la chose qui nous convient le mieux, en en vérifiant plusieurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je vais aller magasiner samedi.
  2. Dans tous les magasins de Broadway, […] elles font déplier toutes les étoffes, demandent le prix de chaque chose…, et n’achètent rien. Le commis impassible ne témoigne par aucun signe du moindre mécontentement. Il y a un mot pour cette singulière habitude, familière à toutes les dames américaines et un peu aux Anglaises : on appelle cela “shopping” (magas…

Synonyms

faire des coursesfaire du lèche-vitrinefaire du shoppingfaire les magasinsfaire les boutiques

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amgasiner
  • maagsiner
  • magaisner
  • magasienr
  • magasinerr
  • magasinner
  • magasinre
  • magasnier
  • magassiner
  • maggasiner
  • magsainer
  • mgaasiner
  • mmagasiner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magasiner - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amgasiner2maagsiner2magaisner2magasienr2magasinerr1magasinner1magasinre2magasnier2
Edit distance from "magasiner"

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 "magasiner"?
"magasiner" is spelled M-A-G-A-S-I-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ɡa.zi.ne\.
What does "magasiner" mean?
As a verb, "magasiner" means: Faire les magasins, faire du lèche-vitrine, sans obligatoirement acheter.
What words are commonly confused with "magasiner"?
"magasiner" is commonly confused with "magazine", "magasins", "magazines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "magasiner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magasiner" is \ma.ɡa.zi.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magasiner" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "magasiner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list