vitrine

\vi.tʁin\

/\vi.tʁin\/ noun

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The verdict

“vitrine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,941
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devanture vitrée d’une boutique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-vitrine · vitrine · French

vitrine · rank #9,941 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,941
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH visiteur

Nearest frequency peer: visiteur (-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 « vitrine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « vitrine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

vitrine vs vitriol
71% similar
vitrine vs vitrines
88% similar
vitrine vs vitre
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for vitrine
PropertyValue
Headwordvitrine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi.tʁin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#9,941
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vitrine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.vitrinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « visiteur » (#9,940), « vivaient » (#9,942), « virtuel » (#9,939). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « vitrine » est au #9,941. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around vitrine (IPA \vi.tʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,941 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vitrine, with forms such as "ivtrine", "virtine", and "vitirne". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vitriol", "vitrines", "vitre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vitrine, spelled V-I-T-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Devanture vitrée d’une boutique.
  2. 2
    Armoire vitrée, d’une table vitrée, dans laquelle on expose des objets précieux ou fragiles.
  3. 3
    Ce qui sert à mettre en valeur quelque-chose, le représenter sous son meilleur jour, en faire la publicité.
  4. 4
    Visage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how vitrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans toutes les vitrines des photographes, on voyait des rangées entières de portraits qui représentaient un jeune gaillard […] C’était l’illustre assassin de Pantin.
  2. […] et si je n’ai jamais vu de femme plus hideuse, jamais, jamais je ne vis de plus coquette personne. Une toilette, un bijou aperçu à travers des vitrines éblouissantes, la faisaient tomber en pâmoison.

Synonyms

verrine

This word in other languages

showcase(English)vitrina(Español)Schaufenster(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivtrine
  • virtine
  • vitirne
  • vitrien
  • vitrinne
  • vitrnie
  • vitrrine
  • vittrine
  • vtirine
  • vvitrine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vitrine - 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.

ivtrine2virtine2vitirne2vitrien2vitrinne1vitrnie2vitrrine1vittrine1
Edit distance from "vitrine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vitrine"?
"vitrine" is spelled V-I-T-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi.tʁin\.
What does "vitrine" mean?
As a noun, "vitrine" means: Devanture vitrée d’une boutique.
What words are commonly confused with "vitrine"?
"vitrine" is commonly confused with "vitriol", "vitrines", "vitre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vitrine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vitrine" is \vi.tʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vitrine" come from?
"vitrine" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vitrine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

virtuel#9,939vilaine#9,938Édouard#9,945uranium#9,934

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

copines10 variantscorrecte10 variantsportera10 variantsLegault10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list