racine
\ʁa.sin\
The verdict
“racine” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,912 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,912
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | racine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “racine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for racine is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for racine, with forms such as "arcine", "raccine", and "racien". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is racine, spelled R-A-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Organe 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.
- 2Racine de certains arbres dont on fait des ouvrages d’ébénisterie et de tour.
- 3Plante, telle que les raves, les betteraves, les carottes, les navets, etc., dans lesquelles ce qui est comestible est ce qui vient en terre.
- 4Partie des ongles, des dents, des cheveux, des poils par où ils tiennent à la chair.
- 5Point par lequel un nerf tient au cerveau ou à la moelle épinière.
- 6Principe du commencement de certaines choses ; origine.
- 7Mot primitif, d’où dérivent d’autres mots ; la plus petite et plus ancienne unité lexicale qui permette de former des mots apparentés.
- 8Mot primitif, d’où dérivent d’autres mots ; la plus petite et plus ancienne unité lexicale qui permette de former des mots apparentés.
- 9Étymon.
- 10Valeur d'une fonction pour laquelle cette dernière s'annule.
- 11Nombre déduit d’un autre, de telle sorte que le second soit une puissance du premier.
- 12Élément (« nœud ») de base d’une structure arborescente (« arbre »), qui n’a lui-même aucun nœud parent.
- 13Répertoire de base d’un système de fichiers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: arcine,raccine,racien,racinne,racnie,raicne,rcaine,rracine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “racine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-C-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁa.sin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “raie” - see the side-by-side comparison. racine vs raie
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.