toxine

\tɔk.sin\

/\tɔk.sin\/ noun

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The verdict

“toxine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,844
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poison produit par certains microbes, par certaines décompositions organiques ou par certains êtres vivants, tels que les bactéries, les insectes, les plantes et les reptiles.

Corpus desk

Index FR-toxine · toxine · French

toxine · rank #30,844 · 8 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,844
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tourelle

Nearest frequency peer: tourelle (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « toxine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « toxine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

toxine vs traîne
50% similar
toxine vs toxique
71% similar
toxine vs toxines
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for toxine
PropertyValue
Headwordtoxine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɔk.sin\
Letters6
Frequency rank#30,844
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toxine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).toxinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tourelle » (#30,843), « trav » (#30,845), « Torino » (#30,842). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « toxine » est au #30,844. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around toxine (IPA \tɔk.sin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,844 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for toxine, with forms such as "otxine", "toixne", and "toxien". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "traîne", "toxique", "toxines", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is toxine, spelled T-O-X-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poison produit par certains microbes, par certaines décompositions organiques ou par certains êtres vivants, tels que les bactéries, les insectes, les plantes et les reptiles.
  2. 2
    Substance inconnue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how toxine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Certains auteurs ont estimé que les plantes déversent des toxines dans le sol. Ces toxines pourraient être nuisibles à ces plantes elles-mêmes, empêchant leur conservation à la même place, ou à d’autres plantes, empêchant leur installation à cet endroit.
  2. La scarlatine est une angine streptococcique accompagnée d’une éruption cutanée due à la sécrétion de toxine.

This word in other languages

toxin(English)toxina(Español)Giftstoff(Deutsch)toxina(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otxine
  • toixne
  • toxien
  • toxinne
  • toxnie
  • toxxine
  • ttoxine
  • txoine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toxine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

otxine2toixne2toxien2toxinne1toxnie2toxxine1ttoxine1txoine2
Edit distance from "toxine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "toxine"?
"toxine" is spelled T-O-X-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔk.sin\.
What does "toxine" mean?
As a noun, "toxine" means: Poison produit par certains microbes, par certaines décompositions organiques ou par certains êtres vivants, tels que les bactéries, les insectes, les plantes et les reptiles.
What words are commonly confused with "toxine"?
"toxine" is commonly confused with "traîne", "toxique", "toxines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toxine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toxine" is \tɔk.sin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toxine" come from?
"toxine" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "toxine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Torino#30,842Tolède#30,841tresse#30,847urines#30,850

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Tellier8 variantsVasseur8 variantssévir8 variantsWeimar8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list