auberge
\o.bɛʁʒ\
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
- ajout
ajout
92,071 corpus weight
- arranger
arranger
92,070 corpus weight
- attribuer
attribuer
92,069 corpus weight
- auberge
auberge
92,068 corpus weight
- Australien
Australien
92,067 corpus weight
- boue
boue
92,066 corpus weight
What this shows « auberge » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auberge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auberge »
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
- 1Maison où on trouve un repas et un lit pour dormir en payant.
- 2Prison (car on y est nourri et logé).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auberge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
[…], 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).