violine
\vjo.lin\
The verdict
“violine” is uncommon French (frequency #91,280 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,280
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poudre blanche, âcre, extraite du rhizome de la violette, aux propriétés émétiques. On la nomme aussi émétine indigène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violine · violine · French
violine · rank #91,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH violement
Nearest frequency peer: violement (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « violine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- viguerie
viguerie
8,724 corpus weight
- Villaines
Villaines
8,723 corpus weight
- violement
violement
8,722 corpus weight
- violine
violine
8,721 corpus weight
- viralité
viralité
8,720 corpus weight
- Virenque
Virenque
8,719 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « violine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjo.lin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « violine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
violine is uncommon French at frequency #91,280 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \vjo.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for violine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is violine, spelled V-I-O-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Poudre blanche, âcre, extraite du rhizome de la violette, aux propriétés émétiques. On la nomme aussi émétine indigène.
- 2Synonyme de datil, une variété de prune bleu foncé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how violine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La violine a été découverte par M. Boullay dans les différentes parties (racine , feuilles , fleurs et semences) du viola odorata; elle possède les principaux caractères de l'émétine provenant de l'ipécacuanha.
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); 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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