robinet
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,397
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
robinet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce ajustée à l’issue d’un tuyau, d’un réservoir, etc., qui sert à retenir le liquide ou le gaz et à le faire sortir quand on veut. Pronounced \ʁɔ.bi.nɛ\. Often confused with robinets and robin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | robinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.bi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for robinet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.bi.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,397 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 robinet, with forms such as "orbinet", "rboinet", and "robbinet". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "robinets", "robin", 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 robinet, spelled R-O-B-I-N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce ajustée à l’issue d’un tuyau, d’un réservoir, etc., qui sert à retenir le liquide ou le gaz et à le faire sortir quand on veut.
- 2La clef du robinet.
- 3Source de quelque chose.
- 4Ce qui sert à empêcher l’air d’entrer dans une machine pneumatique quand le vide est fait.
- 5Organe sexuel mâle, pénis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orbinet,rboinet,robbinet,robient,robinett,robinnet,robinte,robniet,roibnet,rrobinet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for robinet
Misspelling Variants of "robinet"
Frequency rank: #10,397 in French
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