suburban
/səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/
"suburban" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suburban” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,212
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suburban · suburban · English
suburban · rank #8,212 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,212
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stare
Nearest frequency peer: stare (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “suburban”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sphere
sphere
91,793 corpus weight
- stamps
stamps
91,791 corpus weight
- stare
stare
91,790 corpus weight
- suburban
suburban
91,789 corpus weight
- sung
sung
91,788 corpus weight
- terribly
terribly
91,785 corpus weight
What this shows “suburban” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suburban |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “suburban”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around suburban (IPA /səˈbɜː(ɹ)bən/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,212 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for suburban, with forms such as "sbuurban", "ssuburban", and "subburban". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "suburbs", "suburbia", "suburb", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban. The correct English form is suburban, spelled S-U-B-U-R-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Relating to or characteristic of or situated on the outskirts of a city; of or relating to suburbia or the suburbs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suburban appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.
Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.
Etymology
From Latin suburbanus, from prefix sub- (“under”) + urbs (“city”) + -anus (“adjective suffix”), equivalent to sub- + urban.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbuurban
- ssuburban
- subburban
- subruban
- sububran
- suburabn
- suburbann
- suburbban
- suburbna
- suburrban
- suubrban
- usburban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suburban - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).