Audubon
\o.dy.bɔ̃\
The verdict
“Audubon” is uncommon French (frequency #88,336 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,336
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connue pour Jean-Jacques Audubon (1785-1851), ornithologue, naturaliste et peintre américain d’origine française, considéré comme le premier ornithologiste du Nouveau Monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-audubon · Audubon · French
Audubon · rank #88,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,336
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aubergistes
Nearest frequency peer: aubergistes (-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 « Audubon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asservit
asservit
11,669 corpus weight
- assisterez
assisterez
11,668 corpus weight
- attrapeur
attrapeur
11,667 corpus weight
- aubergistes
aubergistes
11,666 corpus weight
- Audubon
Audubon
11,665 corpus weight
- auris
auris
11,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Audubon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Audubon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.dy.bɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Audubon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Audubon is uncommon French at frequency #88,336 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.dy.bɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connue pour Jean-Jacques Audubon (1785-1851), ornithologue, naturaliste et peintre américain d’origine française, considéré comme le premier ornithologiste du Nouveau Monde.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Audubon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Audubon, spelled A-U-D-U-B-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connue pour Jean-Jacques Audubon (1785-1851), ornithologue, naturaliste et peintre américain d’origine française, considéré comme le premier ornithologiste du Nouveau Monde.
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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