ustensile de cuisine
\ys.tɑ̃.sil də kɥi.zin\
The verdict
“ustensile de cuisine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument utilisé en cuisine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ustensile de cuisine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ys.tɑ̃.sil də kɥi.zin\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ustensile de cuisine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ustensile de cuisine is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ys.tɑ̃.sil də kɥi.zin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument utilisé en cuisine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ustensile de cuisine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ustensile de cuisine, spelled U-S-T-E-N-S-I-L-E- -D-E- -C-U-I-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument utilisé en cuisine.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-S-T-E-N-S-I-L-E- -D-E- -C-U-I-S-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ys.tɑ̃.sil də kɥi.zin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.