nicotine
\ni.kɔ.tin\
The verdict
“nicotine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,352
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé hétérocyclique très toxique, dérivé de la pyridine, qu’on extrait du tabac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nicotine · nicotine · French
nicotine · rank #19,352 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuville
Nearest frequency peer: Neuville (-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 « nicotine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- NBC
NBC
80,652 corpus weight
- Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
80,651 corpus weight
- Neuville
Neuville
80,650 corpus weight
- nicotine
nicotine
80,649 corpus weight
- notificatio…
notifications
80,648 corpus weight
- obsolète
obsolète
80,647 corpus weight
What this shows « nicotine » 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 | nicotine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.kɔ.tin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nicotine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around nicotine (IPA \ni.kɔ.tin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,352 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for nicotine, with forms such as "incotine", "nciotine", and "niccotine". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "niçoise", "Nicosie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nicotine, spelled N-I-C-O-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Composé hétérocyclique très toxique, dérivé de la pyridine, qu’on extrait du tabac.
- 2Sulfate de nicotine utilisé comme aphicide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nicotine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Demande à un fumeur que la nicotine empoisonne s’il peut renoncer à son habitude délicieuse et mortelle. Il te dira qu’il a essayé cent fois sans y parvenir.
Sa moustache blanche en partie jaunie par la nicotine s’abaissa un instant vers son menton proéminent tout piqueté de poils gris.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- incotine
- nciotine
- niccotine
- nicoitne
- nicotien
- nicotinne
- nicotnie
- nicottine
- nictoine
- nioctine
- nnicotine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nicotine - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).