pharmaciens

\faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\

/\faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“pharmaciens” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,702
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pharmacien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pharmaciens · pharmaciens · French

pharmaciens · rank #16,702 · 17 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,702
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perfect

Nearest frequency peer: perfect (-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 « pharmaciens »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pharmaciens » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pharmaciens vs pharmacies
91% similar
pharmaciens vs pharmacie
82% similar
pharmaciens vs pharmacien
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pharmaciens
PropertyValue
Headwordpharmaciens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#16,702
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pharmaciens »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pharmaciensse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perfect » (#16,701), « pignon » (#16,703), « poussières » (#16,704). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pharmaciens » est au #16,702. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around pharmaciens (IPA \faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,702 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pharmacien.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for pharmaciens, with forms such as "hparmaciens", "pahrmaciens", and "phamraciens". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pharmacies", "pharmacie", "pharmacien", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pharmaciens, spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-C-I-E-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de pharmacien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pharmaciens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « De toute façon, tout médicament expose à des effets secondaires et à des risques », rappelle Pierre-Olivier Variot, le président de l’Union des syndicats de pharmaciens d’officine.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hparmaciens
  • pahrmaciens
  • phamraciens
  • pharamciens
  • pharmacciens
  • pharmaceins
  • pharmacienns
  • pharmacienss
  • pharmaciesn
  • pharmacines
  • pharmaicens
  • pharmcaiens
  • pharmmaciens
  • pharrmaciens
  • phharmaciens
  • phramaciens
  • ppharmaciens

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pharmaciens - 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.

hparmaciens2pahrmaciens2phamraciens2pharamciens2pharmacciens1pharmaceins2pharmacienns1pharmacienss1
Edit distance from "pharmaciens"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pharmaciens"?
"pharmaciens" is spelled P-H-A-R-M-A-C-I-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\.
What does "pharmaciens" mean?
As a noun, "pharmaciens" means: Pluriel de pharmacien.
What words are commonly confused with "pharmaciens"?
"pharmaciens" is commonly confused with "pharmacies", "pharmacie", "pharmacien". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pharmaciens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pharmaciens" is \faʁ.ma.sjɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pharmaciens" come from?
"pharmaciens" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pharmaciens", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list