aubade
\o.bad\
The verdict
“aubade” is uncommon French (frequency #80,888 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,888
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concert donné en plein air, vers l’aube, à la porte ou sous les fenêtres d’une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aubade · aubade · French
aubade · rank #80,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,888
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attirons
Nearest frequency peer: attirons (-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 « aubade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asthénie
asthénie
19,117 corpus weight
- asu
asu
19,116 corpus weight
- attardant
attardant
19,115 corpus weight
- attirons
attirons
19,114 corpus weight
- aubade
aubade
19,113 corpus weight
- avicole
avicole
19,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aubade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aubade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aubade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aubade is uncommon French at frequency #80,888 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.bad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aubade, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aubade, spelled A-U-B-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Concert donné en plein air, vers l’aube, à la porte ou sous les fenêtres d’une personne.
- 2Insulte, avanie, peur faite avec vacarme à quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aubade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner une aubade.
Après la parade, Lucien fut d’inspection à la caserne ; à peine rentré chez lui, les trente-six trompettes vinrent sous ses fenêtres lui donner une aubade agréable.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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