aubergine
\o.bɛʁ.ʒin\
The verdict
“aubergine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,386
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante herbacée de la famille des solanacées qui porte des fruits blancs semblables à des œufs, ou de forme allongée comme les concombres, et de couleur violette, jaune ou rougeâtre (Solanum melong...
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 | aubergine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bɛʁ.ʒin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aubergine” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around aubergine (IPA \o.bɛʁ.ʒin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,386 among 424,905 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aubergine, with forms such as "abuergine", "aubbergine", and "aubegrine". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Auvergne", "aubergines", "aubergiste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aubergine, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée de la famille des solanacées qui porte des fruits blancs semblables à des œufs, ou de forme allongée comme les concombres, et de couleur violette, jaune ou rougeâtre (Solanum melongena).
- 2Fruit de cette plante, de couleur magenta-pourpre à violet, très sombre, de la famille des solanacées, utilisé comme légume, notamment dans la cuisine méditerranéenne, et servant à réaliser des plats tels que la moussaka ou la ratatouille.
- 3Auxiliaire féminine de police, chargée du contrôle du stationnement, appelée ainsi à l’origine en raison de la couleur de son uniforme, proche de celle du fruit.
- 4Nom local de l’aubergine africaine
- 5Œil au beurre noir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abuergine
- aubbergine
- aubegrine
- auberggine
- aubergien
- auberginne
- aubergnie
- auberigne
- auberrgine
- aubregine
- auebrgine
- uabergine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aubergine - 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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Using “aubergine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-B-E-R-G-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o.bɛʁ.ʒin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Auvergne” - see the side-by-side comparison. aubergine vs Auvergne
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
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.