auberge de jeunesse
\o.bɛʁʒ də ʒø.nɛs\
The verdict
“auberge de jeunesse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Établissement offrant la location de lits dans des chambres ou dortoirs et des repas, pour une courte durée et à des prix bas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auberge de jeunesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bɛʁʒ də ʒø.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auberge de jeunesse” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
auberge de jeunesse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.bɛʁʒ də ʒø.nɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Établissement offrant la location de lits dans des chambres ou dortoirs et des repas, pour une courte durée et à des prix bas.".
auberge de jeunesse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is auberge de jeunesse, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-E- -D-E- -J-E-U-N-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement offrant la location de lits dans des chambres ou dortoirs et des repas, pour une courte durée et à des prix bas.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “auberge de jeunesse”
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- The one correct French spelling is A-U-B-E-R-G-E- -D-E- -J-E-U-N-E-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.