adobe
\a.dɔb\
The verdict
“adobe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,947. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,947
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Brique durcie au soleil, fabriquée à partir de terre argileuse mélangée à de la paille ou de l’herbe sèche hachée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adobe · adobe · French
adobe · rank #26,947 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,947
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adaptateur
Nearest frequency peer: adaptateur (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « adobe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- acer
acer
73,057 corpus weight
- adaptant
adaptant
73,056 corpus weight
- adaptateur
adaptateur
73,055 corpus weight
- adobe
adobe
73,054 corpus weight
- adonner
adonner
73,053 corpus weight
- adorée
adorée
73,052 corpus weight
What this shows « adobe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | adobe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adobe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around adobe (IPA \a.dɔb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,947 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for adobe, with forms such as "adboe", "addobe", and "adobbe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aube", "ados", "albe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is adobe, spelled A-D-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Brique durcie au soleil, fabriquée à partir de terre argileuse mélangée à de la paille ou de l’herbe sèche hachée.
- 2Matériau constitué par assemblage de briques de ce type.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adobe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fabriquer des adobes traditionnellement nécessite du soleil et de l’espace pour les faire sécher. Les régions du sud sont donc bien adaptées.
– Coriolan, dit-il au domestique nègre qui jouait à la balle contre le mur d’adobes de la véranda, va dire à ta maîtresse qu’il est temps.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adboe
- addobe
- adobbe
- adoeb
- aodbe
- daobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adobe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).