pharmacie
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,639
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
pharmacie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Science ayant pour objet la composition, la préparation et le contrôle des médicaments. Pronounced \faʁ.ma.si\. It ranks #6,639 in French word frequency. Often confused with pharmacien and pharmacies.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pharmacie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \faʁ.ma.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pharmacie is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \faʁ.ma.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,639 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pharmacie, with forms such as "hparmacie", "pahrmacie", and "phamracie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pharmacien", "pharmacies", "pharmaciens", 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 pharmacie, spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-C-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Science ayant pour objet la composition, la préparation et le contrôle des médicaments.
- 2Officine où l’on conserve, prépare et vend des médicaments ainsi que divers produits ayant trait à la santé, à l'hygiène, aux soins du corps etc.
- 3Assortiment de produits de premiers soins et de médicaments d'usage courant que l'on garde chez soi ou que l'on emporte en voyage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hparmacie,pahrmacie,phamracie,pharamcie,pharmaccie,pharmacei,pharmaice,pharmcaie,pharmmacie,pharrmacie,phharmacie,phramacie,ppharmacie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pharmacie
Misspelling Variants of "pharmacie"
Frequency rank: #6,639 in French
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