aubois
\o.bwɑ\
The verdict
“aubois” is uncommon French (frequency #89,414 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,414
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au département de l’Aube.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aubois · aubois · French
aubois · rank #89,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aula
Nearest frequency peer: aula (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aubois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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astronautique
10,592 corpus weight
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atteindraient
10,589 corpus weight
- aubois
aubois
10,587 corpus weight
- aula
aula
10,586 corpus weight
- azad
azad
10,583 corpus weight
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azéris
10,582 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aubois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aubois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.bwɑ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aubois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aubois is uncommon French at frequency #89,414 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.bwɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au département de l’Aube.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aubois in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aubois, spelled A-U-B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif au département de l’Aube.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aubois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un autre côté, l’industrie auboise est elle aussi moribonde, qu’il s’agisse de la bonneterie troyenne, des métiers de la transformation du bois, de la mécanique, etc.
De passage à l’hôtel de ville de Troyes début novembre, il a réuni les professionnels aubois de l’aide et de la protection de l’enfance : des juristes du Centre d’information des droits des femmes et des familles de l’Aube, une adjudante de l’unité de prise en charge des mineurs de la gendarmerie de Rosières, ou encore l’activiste et poétesse Cathy Travai…
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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