aub
\ˌɑls.tyˈbliːft\
The verdict
“aub” is uncommon French (frequency #93,504 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,504
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de a.u.b..
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˌɑls.tyˈbliːft\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #93,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aub” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aub is uncommon French at frequency #93,504 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ˌɑls.tyˈbliːft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de a.u.b..".
Zero misspellings are on record for aub in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aub, spelled A-U-B.
Definition
- 1Variante de a.u.b..
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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Using “aub”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.