# Oberon

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈoʊbərɒn/ · frequency rank #44,378

## Definitions
1. A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
2. The outermost major moon of Uranus.
3. A town and local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
4. A minor city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.
5. A general purpose programming language and operating system descended from Modula-2, developed in the late 1980s.

## Etymology
Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.

## Easily confused with
- **odeon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oberon-vs-odeon)
- **Oregon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oberon-vs-oregon)
- **Overton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oberon-vs-overton)

## Common misspellings (8)
`boeron`, `obberon`, `obeorn`, `oberno`, `oberonn`, `oberron`, `obreon`, `oebron`

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