officine
\ɔ.fi.sin\
The verdict
“officine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,161
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laboratoire d’un pharmacien, endroit où il prépare ou vend ses médicaments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-officine · officine · French
officine · rank #27,161 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,161
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH officieux
Nearest frequency peer: officieux (-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 « officine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- octroyé
octroyé
72,843 corpus weight
- Odessa
Odessa
72,842 corpus weight
- officieux
officieux
72,841 corpus weight
- officine
officine
72,840 corpus weight
- offraient
offraient
72,839 corpus weight
- oit
oit
72,838 corpus weight
What this shows « officine » 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 | officine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.fi.sin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « officine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around officine (IPA \ɔ.fi.sin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,161 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for officine, with forms such as "foficine", "offciine", and "officcine". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "offline", "officines", "office", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is officine, spelled O-F-F-I-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Laboratoire d’un pharmacien, endroit où il prépare ou vend ses médicaments.
- 2Endroit où l’on complote, où se préparent de mauvaises choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how officine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais on admirait devant la boutique du pharmacien, un tas beaucoup plus large, et qui dépassait les autres de la supériorité qu’une officine doit avoir sur les fourneaux bourgeois, un besoin général sur des fantaisies individuelles.
À l’heure de profondes mutations du secteur de la santé, Sanofi a naturellement initié une démarche ayant comme objectif de renforcer la place du pharmacien d’officine dans le parcours de soin en tant qu’acteur clé de santé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- foficine
- offciine
- officcine
- officien
- officinne
- officnie
- offiicne
- oficine
- ofifcine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of officine - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "officine", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).