vitamine

/\vi.ta.min\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,385

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

vitamine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance existant dans certains aliments, un coenzyme, que l’être humain ou l’animal n’est souvent pas capable de synthétiser, ou en quantité insuffisante, et qui est nécessaire en petite quantité... Pronounced \vi.ta.min\. Often confused with vitrine and vilaine.

Key facts for vitamine
PropertyValue
Headwordvitamine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.ta.min\
Letters8
Frequency rank#14,385
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vitamine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vitamine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.ta.min\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,385 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for vitamine, with forms such as "ivtamine", "viatmine", and "vitaimne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "vitrine", "vilaine", "vitalité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 vitamine, spelled V-I-T-A-M-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
    Substance existant dans certains aliments, un coenzyme, que l’être humain ou l’animal n’est souvent pas capable de synthétiser, ou en quantité insuffisante, et qui est nécessaire en petite quantité à la croissance, la reproduction et au maintien de l’équilibre vital ou même de la vie.
  2. 2
    Chose revitalisante.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivtamine,viatmine,vitaimne,vitamien,vitaminne,vitammine,vitamnie,vitmaine,vittamine,vtiamine,vvitamine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vitamine

Misspelling Variants of "vitamine"

ivtamine8viatmine8vitaimne8vitamien8vitaminne9vitammine9vitamnie8vitmaine8
Misspelling Variants of "vitamine"

Frequency rank: #14,385 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vitamine"?
"vitamine" is spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.ta.min\.
What does "vitamine" mean?
As a noun, "vitamine" means: Substance existant dans certains aliments, un coenzyme, que l’être humain ou l’animal n’est souvent pas capable de synthétiser, ou en quantité insuffisante, et qui est nécessaire en petite quantité...
What words are commonly confused with "vitamine"?
"vitamine" is commonly confused with "vitrine", "vilaine", "vitalité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vitamine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vitamine" is \vi.ta.min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vitamine" come from?
"vitamine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.