faubourg
/ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/
"faubourg" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faubourg” is uncommon English (frequency #84,238 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,238
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.
Corpus desk
Index EN-faubourg · faubourg · English
faubourg · rank #84,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,238
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH FATT
Nearest frequency peer: FATT (-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 “faubourg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- expropriate
expropriate
15,770 corpus weight
- extensibili…
extensibility
15,769 corpus weight
- extensional
extensional
15,768 corpus weight
- FATT
FATT
15,764 corpus weight
- faubourg
faubourg
15,763 corpus weight
- femtosecond
femtosecond
15,759 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “faubourg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faubourg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “faubourg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
faubourg is uncommon English at frequency #84,238 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for faubourg, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French faubourg. The correct English form is faubourg, spelled F-A-U-B-O-U-R-G.
Definition
- 1An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faubourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At last a great shout went up ... and that was sign sufficient that the faubourgs were ours.
[…]in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards[…]
Etymology
Borrowed from French faubourg.
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); 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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