aub
\ˌɑls.tyˈbliːft\
The verdict
“aub” is uncommon French (frequency #93,504 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de a.u.b..
Corpus desk
Index FR-aub · aub · French
aub · rank #93,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,504
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attelles
Nearest frequency peer: attelles (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assèchent
assèchent
6,501 corpus weight
- Athénaïs
Athénaïs
6,500 corpus weight
- athérome
athérome
6,499 corpus weight
- attelles
attelles
6,498 corpus weight
- aub
aub
6,497 corpus weight
- aventureuses
aventureuses
6,495 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « aub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aub is uncommon French at frequency #93,504 among 6,727 “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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