Airbus
\ɛʁ.bys\
The verdict
“Airbus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,593
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise d’assemblage d’avions européens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-airbus · Airbus · French
Airbus · rank #9,593 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,593
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aies
Nearest frequency peer: aies (-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 « Airbus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affirment
affirment
90,412 corpus weight
- agissent
agissent
90,411 corpus weight
- agressif
agressif
90,410 corpus weight
- aies
aies
90,409 corpus weight
- Airbus
Airbus
90,408 corpus weight
- alliances
alliances
90,407 corpus weight
What this shows « Airbus » 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 | Airbus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.bys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Airbus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Airbus (IPA \ɛʁ.bys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,593 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Entreprise d’assemblage d’avions européens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Airbus, with forms such as "aibrus", "airbbus", and "airbsu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "airs", "aires", "argus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Airbus, spelled A-I-R-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Entreprise d’assemblage d’avions européens.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aibrus
- airbbus
- airbsu
- airbuss
- airrbus
- airubs
- aribus
- iarbus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Airbus - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Airbus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).