origine

/\ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#619

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

origine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Commencement. Pronounced \ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\. It ranks #619 in French word frequency. Often confused with origins and origines.

Key facts for origine
PropertyValue
Headwordorigine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#619
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of origine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for origine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\. Corpus data places it at rank #619 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for origine, with forms such as "oirgine", "orgiine", and "origgine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "origins", "origines", "originel", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is origine, spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commencement.
  2. 2
    Point de départ ; première cause.
  3. 3
    Milieu de naissance ; lieu ou condition de création.
  4. 4
    En géométrie, singularité d’un espace repéré correspondant à l’intersection des axes.
  5. 5
    Branches des sciences qui ont un point de départ et une flèche du temps comme la cosmologie ou l’épistémologie.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oirgine,orgiine,origgine,origien,originne,orignie,oriigne,orrigine,roigine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for origine

Misspelling Variants of "origine"

oirgine7orgiine7origgine8origien7originne8orignie7oriigne7orrigine8
Misspelling Variants of "origine"

Frequency rank: #619 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "origine"?
"origine" is spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\.
What does "origine" mean?
As a noun, "origine" means: Commencement.
What words are commonly confused with "origine"?
"origine" is commonly confused with "origins", "origines", "originel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "origine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "origine" is \ɔ.ʁi.ʒin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "origine" come from?
"origine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.