routine
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,237
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
routine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Capacité, faculté acquise plutôt par une longue habitude, par une longue pratique, que par le secours de l’étude et des règles. Pronounced \ʁu.tin\. It ranks #7,237 in French word frequency. Often confused with ruiné and routines.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | routine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for routine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,237 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for routine, with forms such as "orutine", "rotuine", and "rouitne". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ruiné", "routines", "route", 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 routine, spelled R-O-U-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capacité, faculté acquise plutôt par une longue habitude, par une longue pratique, que par le secours de l’étude et des règles.
- 2Usage depuis longtemps consacré de faire une chose toujours de la même manière.
- 3Enchaînement de passes accompagnées ou non d’un boniment qui constitue ce que le profane appelle un tour de magie.
- 4Ensemble d’instructions conçues pour effectuer une tâche récurrente → voir sous-routine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orutine,rotuine,rouitne,routien,routinne,routnie,routtine,rroutine,ruotine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "routine"
Frequency rank: #7,237 in French
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