aubergine
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,386
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
aubergine is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced \o.bɛʁ.ʒin\. Often confused with Auvergne and aubergines.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aubergine is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.bɛʁ.ʒin\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,386 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aubergine, with forms such as "abuergine", "aubbergine", and "aubegrine". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Auvergne", "aubergines", "aubergiste", 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 aubergine, spelled A-U-B-E-R-G-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abuergine,aubbergine,aubegrine,auberggine,aubergien,auberginne,aubergnie,auberigne,auberrgine,aubregine,auebrgine,uabergine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "aubergine"
Frequency rank: #35,386 in French
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