routine

/\ʁu.tin\/ noun

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.

Key facts for routine
PropertyValue
Headwordroutine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁu.tin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,237
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Capacité, faculté acquise plutôt par une longue habitude, par une longue pratique, que par le secours de l’étude et des règles.
  2. 2
    Usage depuis longtemps consacré de faire une chose toujours de la même manière.
  3. 3
    Enchaînement de passes accompagnées ou non d’un boniment qui constitue ce que le profane appelle un tour de magie.
  4. 4
    Ensemble d’instructions conçues pour effectuer une tâche récurrente → voir sous-routine.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: orutine,rotuine,rouitne,routien,routinne,routnie,routtine,rroutine,ruotine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for routine

Misspelling Variants of "routine"

orutine7rotuine7rouitne7routien7routinne8routnie7routtine8rroutine8
Misspelling Variants of "routine"

Frequency rank: #7,237 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "routine"?
"routine" is spelled R-O-U-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁu.tin\.
What does "routine" mean?
As a noun, "routine" means: Capacité, faculté acquise plutôt par une longue habitude, par une longue pratique, que par le secours de l’étude et des règles.
What words are commonly confused with "routine"?
"routine" is commonly confused with "ruiné", "routines", "route". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "routine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "routine" is \ʁu.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "routine" come from?
"routine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.