aube
/ɔːb/
"aube" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aube” is uncommon English (frequency #97,813 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,813
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete form of alb.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aube · aube · English
aube · rank #97,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,813
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH attune
Nearest frequency peer: attune (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “aube”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aspinwall
Aspinwall
2,193 corpus weight
- attune
attune
2,189 corpus weight
- aube
aube
2,188 corpus weight
- AWI
AWI
2,186 corpus weight
- bacc
bacc
2,184 corpus weight
- backflow
backflow
2,183 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aube” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aube |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔːb/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aube” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aube is uncommon English at frequency #97,813 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔːb/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete form of alb.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aube in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is aube, spelled A-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete form of alb.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aube appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For washing eleven aubes and as many head-clothes
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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