Aubin
"aubin" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aubin” is uncommon English (frequency #77,430 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,430
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aubin · Aubin · English
Aubin · rank #77,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,430
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aul
Nearest frequency peer: aul (+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 “Aubin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ASCE
ASCE
22,575 corpus weight
- Asgardian
Asgardian
22,574 corpus weight
- astrakhan
astrakhan
22,573 corpus weight
- Aubin
Aubin
22,571 corpus weight
- aul
aul
22,570 corpus weight
- automatons
automatons
22,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aubin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aubin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aubin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aubin is uncommon English at frequency #77,430 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Aubin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Aubin, from Latin Albinus. The correct English form is Aubin, spelled A-U-B-I-N.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
From French Aubin, from Latin Albinus.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).