auberge

\o.bɛʁʒ\

/\o.bɛʁʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“auberge” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,933
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison où on trouve un repas et un lit pour dormir en payant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auberge · auberge · French

auberge · rank #7,933 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,933
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attribuer

Nearest frequency peer: attribuer (-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 « auberge »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « auberge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

auberge vs aubert
71% similar
auberge vs Auxerre
57% similar
auberge vs Auvergne
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for auberge
PropertyValue
Headwordauberge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.bɛʁʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,933
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auberge »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aubergese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attribuer » (#7,932), « Australien » (#7,934), « arranger » (#7,931). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « auberge » est au #7,933. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around auberge (IPA \o.bɛʁʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,933 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for auberge, with forms such as "abuerge", "aubberge", and "aubegre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "aubert", "Auxerre", "Auvergne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is auberge, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maison où on trouve un repas et un lit pour dormir en payant.
  2. 2
    Prison (car on y est nourri et logé).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how auberge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ou bien, j’aborde dans un des petits ports de la côte, à Meschers, à Talmont, à Saint-Seurin, et je vais m’attabler au fond d’une auberge, devant un quignon de pain, un morceau de fromage et une bouteille de l’honnête vin blanc du pays.
  2. […], puis sous prétexte de prendre conseil, se dirigea vers l’auberge où il fit venir une première chopine suivie de plusieurs autres.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abuerge
  • aubberge
  • aubegre
  • aubereg
  • aubergge
  • auberrge
  • aubrege
  • auebrge
  • uaberge

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auberge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abuerge2aubberge1aubegre2aubereg2aubergge1auberrge1aubrege2auebrge2
Edit distance from "auberge"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auberge"?
"auberge" is spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.bɛʁʒ\.
What does "auberge" mean?
As a noun, "auberge" means: Maison où on trouve un repas et un lit pour dormir en payant.
What words are commonly confused with "auberge"?
"auberge" is commonly confused with "aubert", "Auxerre", "Auvergne". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "auberge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auberge" is \o.bɛʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auberge" come from?
"auberge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "auberge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list