aubade
/əʊˈbɑːd/
"aubade" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aubade” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aubade · aubade · English
aubade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aubade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əʊˈbɑːd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aubade” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aubade is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əʊˈbɑːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
aubade has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear;… The correct English form is aubade, spelled A-U-B-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
- 2A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
- 3A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aubade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.
Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.
Etymology
PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.