magazine

\ma.ɡa.zin\

/\ma.ɡa.zin\/ noun

The verdict

“magazine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,527
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Publication périodique, généralement illustrée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-magazine · magazine · French

magazine · rank #2,527 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,527
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH locales

Nearest frequency peer: locales (-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 « magazine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « magazine » 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).

magazine vs mazarine
75% similar
magazine vs magazines
89% similar
magazine vs margarine
78% similar

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

Key facts for magazine
PropertyValue
Headwordmagazine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ɡa.zin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,527
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « magazine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).magazinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « locales » (#2,526), « marchés » (#2,528), « nulle » (#2,529). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « magazine » est au #2,527. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around magazine (IPA \ma.ɡa.zin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,527 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for magazine, with forms such as "amgazine", "maagzine", and "magaizne". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mazarine", "magazines", "margarine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is magazine, spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Publication périodique, généralement illustrée.
  2. 2
    Émission périodique de radio, télévision, sur un sujet déterminé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les journaux et les magazines qui alimentaient les cerveaux américains (…) devinrent instantanément un feu d’artifice où les illustrations et les titres de colonnes s’enlevaient comme des fusées et éclataient comme des bombes.
  2. J’ai frémi plus d’une fois en lisant dans un magazine féminin la version « métropolitaine » d’une recette créole. On croirait qu’il suffit de mêler lait de coco, tomates et piment pour obtenir un curry ! Il faut aussi du temps, beaucoup de temps.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amgazine
  • maagzine
  • magaizne
  • magazien
  • magazinne
  • magaznie
  • magazzine
  • maggazine
  • magzaine
  • mgaazine
  • mmagazine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amgazine2maagzine2magaizne2magazien2magazinne1magaznie2magazzine1maggazine1
Edit distance from "magazine"

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 "magazine"?
"magazine" is spelled M-A-G-A-Z-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ɡa.zin\.
What does "magazine" mean?
As a noun, "magazine" means: Publication périodique, généralement illustrée.
What words are commonly confused with "magazine"?
"magazine" is commonly confused with "mazarine", "magazines", "margarine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "magazine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magazine" is \ma.ɡa.zin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magazine" come from?
"magazine" 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 "magazine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list