# auburn

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɔ.bɚn/ · frequency rank #10,814

## Definitions
1. A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.

## Etymology
Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.

## Easily confused with
- **autumn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auburn-vs-autumn)
- **Asbury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/asbury-vs-auburn)
- **Albury** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/albury-vs-auburn)
- **Ashburn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ashburn-vs-auburn)

## Common misspellings (8)
`abuurn`, `aubburn`, `aubrun`, `aubunr`, `auburnn`, `auburrn`, `auubrn`, `uaburn`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/auburn