Robespierre
"robespierre" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Robespierre” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,458. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,458
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A surname from French
Corpus desk
Index EN-robespierre · Robespierre · English
Robespierre · rank #48,458 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,458
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH riverbed
Nearest frequency peer: riverbed (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Robespierre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ridiculing
ridiculing
51,547 corpus weight
- rifling
rifling
51,546 corpus weight
- riverbed
riverbed
51,544 corpus weight
- Robespierre
Robespierre
51,543 corpus weight
- rood
rood
51,541 corpus weight
- roundly
roundly
51,540 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Robespierre” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Robespierre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #48,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Robespierre” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Robespierre, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,458 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Robespierre, with forms such as "orbespierre", "rboespierre", and "robbespierre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is Robespierre, spelled R-O-B-E-S-P-I-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French
- 2A surname from French
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Robespierre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Why, Greeley wants to be blood-thirsty — he wants to be a little Robespierre.
"I am not, as you have seen, a Robespierre, and I don't even want to be thought of as a military dictator," said Col Gonatas, leader of the revolutionary movement, […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orbespierre
- rboespierre
- robbespierre
- robepsierre
- robesiperre
- robespeirre
- robespiere
- robespierer
- robespirere
- robesppierre
- robesspierre
- robsepierre
- roebspierre
- rrobespierre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Robespierre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Robespierre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.