aube
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,402
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aube is aFrenchnoun. It means: Clarté qui blanchit l'orient au moment précédant le lever du soleil, ce moment lui-même. Pronounced \ob\. It ranks #4,402 in French word frequency. Often confused with aux and axe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aube |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ob\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aube is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ob\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,402 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for aube, with forms such as "abue", "aubbe", and "aueb". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aux", "axe", "ave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aube, spelled A-U-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clarté qui blanchit l'orient au moment précédant le lever du soleil, ce moment lui-même.
- 2Commencement, début.
- 3Poésie lyrique du Moyen Âge (« alba ») ayant pour thème la séparation au point du jour de deux êtres qui s’aiment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abue,aubbe,aueb,uabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aube
Misspelling Variants of "aube"
Frequency rank: #4,402 in French
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