margarine
\maʁ.ɡa.ʁin\
The verdict
“margarine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,367
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière grasse alimentaire composée de graisses et d’huiles (hydrogénées ou non) dispersées dans de l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-margarine · margarine · French
margarine · rank #40,367 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,367
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maquereau
Nearest frequency peer: maquereau (-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 « margarine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maliennes
maliennes
59,637 corpus weight
- mamies
mamies
59,636 corpus weight
- maquereau
maquereau
59,635 corpus weight
- margarine
margarine
59,634 corpus weight
- Marigny
Marigny
59,633 corpus weight
- masseuse
masseuse
59,632 corpus weight
What this shows « margarine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | margarine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ɡa.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « margarine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around margarine (IPA \maʁ.ɡa.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,367 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for margarine, with forms such as "amrgarine", "magrarine", and "maragrine". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "marraine", "mazarine", "margarita", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is margarine, spelled M-A-R-G-A-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Matière grasse alimentaire composée de graisses et d’huiles (hydrogénées ou non) dispersées dans de l’eau.
- 2Corps d’une couleur nacrée que l’on trouve dans le suif de mouton, dans l’axonge et dans quelques autres graisses animales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how margarine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La margarine est initialement un dérivé animal, développé en France sous le Second Empire pour fournir aux pauvres une graisse bon marché.
Concernant les délais de consommation, le beurre et la margarine sont les produits pour lesquels les Français s’autorisent le plus de libertés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrgarine
- magrarine
- maragrine
- margairne
- margarien
- margarinne
- margarnie
- margarrine
- marggarine
- margraine
- marrgarine
- mmargarine
- mragarine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of margarine - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).