auberge
"auberge" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“auberge” is uncommon English (frequency #78,377 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,377
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An inn or hostel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-auberge · auberge · English
auberge · rank #78,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,377
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH authenticator
Nearest frequency peer: authenticator (+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 “auberge”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ascendance
ascendance
21,627 corpus weight
- attainder
attainder
21,626 corpus weight
- auberge
auberge
21,624 corpus weight
- authenticat…
authenticator
21,623 corpus weight
- autocar
autocar
21,621 corpus weight
- Avebury
Avebury
21,620 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “auberge” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auberge |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “auberge” in English
Rare enough to double-check
auberge is uncommon English at frequency #78,377 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An inn or hostel.".
No misspelling variants are generated for auberge in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French auberge. The term is attested in the fifteenth century as auberge, a loan from a term attested in eleventh century Old Occitan alberga (“camp, hut”), derived from albergar (“to host”). The term originated in Frankish *harjabergu, compos… The correct English form is auberge, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1An inn or hostel.
Etymology
Borrowed from French auberge. The term is attested in the fifteenth century as auberge, a loan from a term attested in eleventh century Old Occitan alberga (“camp, hut”), derived from albergar (“to host”). The term originated in Frankish *harjabergu, composed of the elements *harjaz (“army”) (compare German Heer) and *berganą (“to shelter, to protect”), whence German bergen. Doublet of albergo and harbor.
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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