robine
\ʁɔ.bin\
The verdict
“robine” is uncommon French (frequency #75,167 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,167
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alcool clandestin ou de mauvaise qualité, impropre à la consommation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-robine · robine · French
robine · rank #75,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,167
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roannais
Nearest frequency peer: Roannais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « robine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reveal
reveal
24,838 corpus weight
- rivoire
rivoire
24,837 corpus weight
- roa
roa
24,836 corpus weight
- Roannais
Roannais
24,835 corpus weight
- robine
robine
24,834 corpus weight
- romanée
romanée
24,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « robine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | robine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « robine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
robine is uncommon French at frequency #75,167 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for robine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is robine, spelled R-O-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alcool clandestin ou de mauvaise qualité, impropre à la consommation.
- 2Alcool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how robine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des robineux qui boivent de la robine.
De la robine de prison.
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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