wine
\ˈwaɪn\
The verdict
“wine” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,735) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,735
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wine · wine · French
wine · rank #23,735 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,735
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vécues
Nearest frequency peer: vécues (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « wine »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- voudrions
voudrions
76,268 corpus weight
- vécues
vécues
76,267 corpus weight
- wine
wine
76,266 corpus weight
- Xiaomi
Xiaomi
76,265 corpus weight
- éclectique
éclectique
76,264 corpus weight
- économise
économise
76,263 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « wine » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwaɪn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « wine »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wine is neighbouring look-alikes ("WWE", "won", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈwaɪn\. Frequency #23,735 among 549 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Vin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for wine, with forms such as "iwne", "winne", and "wnie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WWE", "won", "with", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is wine, spelled W-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Vin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwne
- winne
- wnie
- wwine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).