verrine

/\ve.ʁin\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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verrine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit récipient en verre. Pronounced \ve.ʁin\.

Key facts for verrine
PropertyValue
Headwordverrine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ve.ʁin\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

verrine is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for verrine is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.ʁin\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for verrine in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 verrine, spelled V-E-R-R-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
    Petit récipient en verre.
  2. 2
    Bocal à confiture.
  3. 3
    Petit récipient en verre, utilisé pour servir un mets de façon décorative. cf. terrine
  4. 4
    Vérine, lampe de verre suspendue au-dessus du compas, pour éclairer le timonier pendant la nuit.(Variante orthographique : verine.)
  5. 5
    Sorte de cloche de verre composée d'une ossature métallique vitrée.
  6. 6
    → voir forte vis.
  7. 7
    Synonyme de verrière.
  8. 8
    Synonyme de verrière dans le sens de vitre placée devant un tableau pour le protéger.
  9. 9
    Synonyme de vitrine.
  10. 10
    Discours de Cicéron contre Verrès.
  11. 11
    Pièce de verre, de forme variable, qui diffuse la lumière dans une lampe ou un luminaire.
  12. 12
    Boîtier contenant plusieurs avertisseurs lumineux, et indiquant l'état de l'automate d'une machine : en attente, en fonctionnement, alarme…

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "verrine"?
"verrine" is spelled V-E-R-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ve.ʁin\.
What does "verrine" mean?
As a noun, "verrine" means: Petit récipient en verre.
How do you pronounce "verrine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verrine" is \ve.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "verrine" come from?
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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.