racine

/\ʁa.sin\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,912

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

racine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe végétal, généralement souterrain, assurant l’absorption de l’eau et des sels minéraux, la fixation de la plante à son support et parfois le stockage de réserves. Certaines racines peuvent êt... Pronounced \ʁa.sin\. It ranks #5,912 in French word frequency. Often confused with raie and rain.

Key facts for racine
PropertyValue
Headwordracine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.sin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,912
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for racine is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.sin\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,912 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for racine, with forms such as "arcine", "raccine", and "racien". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "raie", "rain", "reine", and more, 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 racine, spelled R-A-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
    Organe végétal, généralement souterrain, assurant l’absorption de l’eau et des sels minéraux, la fixation de la plante à son support et parfois le stockage de réserves. Certaines racines peuvent être aériennes, aquatiques ou spécialisées.
  2. 2
    Racine de certains arbres dont on fait des ouvrages d’ébénisterie et de tour.
  3. 3
    Plante, telle que les raves, les betteraves, les carottes, les navets, etc., dans lesquelles ce qui est comestible est ce qui vient en terre.
  4. 4
    Partie des ongles, des dents, des cheveux, des poils par où ils tiennent à la chair.
  5. 5
    Point par lequel un nerf tient au cerveau ou à la moelle épinière.
  6. 6
    Principe du commencement de certaines choses ; origine.
  7. 7
    Mot primitif, d’où dérivent d’autres mots ; la plus petite et plus ancienne unité lexicale qui permette de former des mots apparentés.
  8. 8
    Mot primitif, d’où dérivent d’autres mots ; la plus petite et plus ancienne unité lexicale qui permette de former des mots apparentés.
  9. 9
    Étymon.
  10. 10
    Valeur d'une fonction pour laquelle cette dernière s'annule.
  11. 11
    Nombre déduit d’un autre, de telle sorte que le second soit une puissance du premier.
  12. 12
    Élément (« nœud ») de base d’une structure arborescente (« arbre »), qui n’a lui-même aucun nœud parent.
  13. 13
    Répertoire de base d’un système de fichiers.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arcine,raccine,racien,racinne,racnie,raicne,rcaine,rracine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for racine

Misspelling Variants of "racine"

arcine6raccine7racien6racinne7racnie6raicne6rcaine6rracine7
Misspelling Variants of "racine"

Frequency rank: #5,912 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "racine"?
"racine" is spelled R-A-C-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.sin\.
What does "racine" mean?
As a noun, "racine" means: Organe végétal, généralement souterrain, assurant l’absorption de l’eau et des sels minéraux, la fixation de la plante à son support et parfois le stockage de réserves. Certaines racines peuvent êt...
What words are commonly confused with "racine"?
"racine" is commonly confused with "raie", "rain", "reine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "racine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racine" is \ʁa.sin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "racine" come from?
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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.