porcelaine

\pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\

/\pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\/ noun

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The verdict

“porcelaine” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,233
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-porcelaine · porcelaine · French

porcelaine · rank #13,233 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #13,233
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pneu

Nearest frequency peer: pneu (-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 « porcelaine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « porcelaine » 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).

porcelaine vs porcelaines
91% similar

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

Key facts for porcelaine
PropertyValue
Headwordporcelaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#13,233
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porcelaine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).porcelainese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pneu » (#13,232), « primordial » (#13,234), « plants » (#13,231). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « porcelaine » est au #13,233. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around porcelaine (IPA \pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,233 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for porcelaine, with forms such as "oprcelaine", "pocrelaine", and "porccelaine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "porcelaines", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is porcelaine, spelled P-O-R-C-E-L-A-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cyprée.
  2. 2
    Céramique blanche, très fine et qui sert à fabriquer des vases, des assiettes et des ustensiles divers.
  3. 3
    Objet en porcelaine.
  4. 4
    Qui a l'apparence de la porcelaine.
  5. 5
    Plante succulente tropicale, originaire du Mexique, décorative, médicinale et dont les feuilles peuvent être mangées.
  6. 6
    Notodonte porcelaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. En juin 1611, environ deux cents Hurons et Algonquins se rendirent aux rapides de Lachine pour rencontrer Champlain et Gravé du Pont et leur remettre en secret : « 50 castors & 4 carquans de leurs porcelaines (qu’ils estiment entre eux comme nous faisons les chaisnes d’or)
  2. Nous avions aussi la pêche au corail sur le récif. — Rarahu m’accompagnait souvent en pirogue dans ces excursions, où nous fouillions l’eau tiède et bleue, à la recherche de madrépores rares ou de porcelaines.

This word in other languages

porcelain(English)porcelana(Español)Porzellan(Deutsch)porcelana(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oprcelaine
  • pocrelaine
  • porccelaine
  • porcealine
  • porcelaien
  • porcelainne
  • porcelanie
  • porceliane
  • porcellaine
  • porcleaine
  • poreclaine
  • porrcelaine
  • pporcelaine
  • procelaine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porcelaine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

oprcelaine2pocrelaine2porccelaine1porcealine2porcelaien2porcelainne1porcelanie2porceliane2
Edit distance from "porcelaine"

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 "porcelaine"?
"porcelaine" is spelled P-O-R-C-E-L-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\.
What does "porcelaine" mean?
As a noun, "porcelaine" means: Cyprée.
What words are commonly confused with "porcelaine"?
"porcelaine" is commonly confused with "porcelaines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "porcelaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porcelaine" is \pɔʁ.sə.lɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porcelaine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

primordial#13,234perpétuité#13,228performant#13,227intégrante#13,192

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

répondait14 variantssymptôme14 variantsterminent14 variantshabituelles14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list