usine
\y.zin\
The verdict
“usine” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,106
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement pourvu de machines, où l’on travaille des matières premières pour en tirer certains produits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usine · usine · French
usine · rank #2,106 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tours
Nearest frequency peer: tours (-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 « usine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- solutions
solutions
97,898 corpus weight
- tours
tours
97,896 corpus weight
- usine
usine
97,895 corpus weight
- Vincent
Vincent
97,894 corpus weight
- aient
aient
97,893 corpus weight
- ambiance
ambiance
97,892 corpus weight
What this shows « usine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around usine (IPA \y.zin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,106 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Établissement pourvu de machines, où l’on travaille des matières premières pour en tirer certains produits.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for usine, with forms such as "suine", "uisne", and "usien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "utile", "usure", "using", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is usine, spelled U-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement pourvu de machines, où l’on travaille des matières premières pour en tirer certains produits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La production […] du sucre de betterave […] commence à se développer dans le département des Ardennes qui possède actuellement 9 usines […] et qui traite environ 140 à 160 millions de kilog. de betteraves par an.
Or,à présent, du Cap Horn à la Nouvelle Zamble, et de Canton à Canton par le tour du monde, on trouvait en tous lieux des usines, des manufactures, des ressources industrielles infinies.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suine
- uisne
- usien
- usinne
- usnie
- ussine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).