aubier
\o.bje\
The verdict
“aubier” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de bois d’arbre tendre et claire qui est entre l’écorce et le duramen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aubier · aubier · French
aubier · rank #41,133 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,133
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atlantico
Nearest frequency peer: atlantico (-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 « aubier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assistaient
assistaient
58,870 corpus weight
- atlantico
atlantico
58,869 corpus weight
- aubier
aubier
58,868 corpus weight
- auditives
auditives
58,867 corpus weight
- Aumale
Aumale
58,866 corpus weight
- baignant
baignant
58,865 corpus weight
What this shows « aubier » 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 | aubier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.bje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aubier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around aubier (IPA \o.bje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,133 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for aubier, with forms such as "abuier", "aubbier", and "aubeir". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "aubin", "auger", "auriez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aubier, spelled A-U-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Partie de bois d’arbre tendre et claire qui est entre l’écorce et le duramen.
- 2Un des noms usuels du saule et du peuplier blanc.
- 3Cépage de raisin blanc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aubier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] tandis qu’au contraire Butscha […] fouillait la vie et les actions de Canalis, en échappant par sa petitesse à tous les yeux, comme un insecte qui fait son chemin dans l’aubier d’un arbre.
L’ouvrier se sert d'une lame courte et tranchante, engagée dans un manche d’os, avec laquelle il pratique, au bas de l’arbre, une entaille circulaire et assez profonde pour arriver jusqu'à l’aubier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abuier
- aubbier
- aubeir
- aubierr
- aubire
- auiber
- uabier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aubier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aubier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).