piscine

/\pi.sin\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,095

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

piscine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bassin de natation et ensemble des installations qui l’entourent. Pronounced \pi.sin\. It ranks #3,095 in French word frequency. Often confused with porcine and piscines.

Key facts for piscine
PropertyValue
Headwordpiscine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.sin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,095
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for piscine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.sin\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,095 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for piscine, with forms such as "ipscine", "picsine", and "pisccine". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "porcine", "piscines", "piétiné", 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 piscine, spelled P-I-S-C-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
    Bassin de natation et ensemble des installations qui l’entourent.
  2. 2
    Bassin destiné à l'élevage de poissons.
  3. 3
    Bassin où l’on fait éclore des œufs de poissons.
  4. 4
    Bassin pour des rites purificatoires. Bassin où se plongent les fidèles pour se purifier dans certaines religions.
  5. 5
    Petite cuve destinée à recevoir l’eau des ablutions, les cendres des objets bénits…
  6. 6
    Bassin en forme de large rigole où l’on fait passer les chevaux pour leur nettoyer les pieds, dans une écurie.
  7. 7
    Bassin contenant de l’eau ou de l’eau lourde et destiné à immerger la matière fissile et servant de modérateur d'irradiation, de réfrigérant et de protection.
  8. 8
    Surnom donné à la DGSE, dont le siège est situé en face de la piscine des Tourelles, à Paris.
  9. 9
    Période de formation intensive reposant sur des projets devant être réalisés par les élèves.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ipscine,picsine,pisccine,piscien,piscinne,piscnie,pisicne,pisscine,ppiscine,psicine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piscine

Misspelling Variants of "piscine"

ipscine7picsine7pisccine8piscien7piscinne8piscnie7pisicne7pisscine8
Misspelling Variants of "piscine"

Frequency rank: #3,095 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piscine"?
"piscine" is spelled P-I-S-C-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.sin\.
What does "piscine" mean?
As a noun, "piscine" means: Bassin de natation et ensemble des installations qui l’entourent.
What words are commonly confused with "piscine"?
"piscine" is commonly confused with "porcine", "piscines", "piétiné". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piscine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piscine" is \pi.sin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piscine" come from?
"piscine" 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.