piscine
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piscine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.sin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Bassin de natation et ensemble des installations qui l’entourent.
- 2Bassin destiné à l'élevage de poissons.
- 3Bassin où l’on fait éclore des œufs de poissons.
- 4Bassin pour des rites purificatoires. Bassin où se plongent les fidèles pour se purifier dans certaines religions.
- 5Petite cuve destinée à recevoir l’eau des ablutions, les cendres des objets bénits…
- 6Bassin en forme de large rigole où l’on fait passer les chevaux pour leur nettoyer les pieds, dans une écurie.
- 7Bassin 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.
- 8Surnom donné à la DGSE, dont le siège est situé en face de la piscine des Tourelles, à Paris.
- 9Période de formation intensive reposant sur des projets devant être réalisés par les élèves.
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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"
Frequency rank: #3,095 in French
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