autobus
\o.tɔ.bys\
The verdict
“autobus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,149
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule de transports en commun, sur des lignes urbaines régulières, comptant des places pour voyager assis et d’autres pour voyager debout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autobus · autobus · French
autobus · rank #7,149 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH augustin
Nearest frequency peer: augustin (-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 « autobus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- approbation
approbation
92,855 corpus weight
- associer
associer
92,854 corpus weight
- augustin
augustin
92,853 corpus weight
- autobus
autobus
92,852 corpus weight
- autorisée
autorisée
92,851 corpus weight
- bay
bay
92,850 corpus weight
What this shows « autobus » 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 | autobus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɔ.bys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autobus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around autobus (IPA \o.tɔ.bys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,149 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Véhicule de transports en commun, sur des lignes urbaines régulières, comptant des places pour voyager assis et d’autres pour voyager debout.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for autobus, with forms such as "atuobus", "auotbus", and "autbous". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "autos", "autour", "autours", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is autobus, spelled A-U-T-O-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Véhicule de transports en commun, sur des lignes urbaines régulières, comptant des places pour voyager assis et d’autres pour voyager debout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autobus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À toute allure les autobus, les omnibus et les charrettes de commissionnaires voituraient malles et valises vers la gare ; sur les quai envahis, l’exode des hiverneurs d’élite se heurtait à la bousculade des voyageurs de toute espèce.
Il haussa les épaules, et, lentement, tête baissée, il se dirigea vers la rue Drouot où il savait trouver son autobus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuobus
- auotbus
- autbous
- autobbus
- autobsu
- autobuss
- autoubs
- auttobus
- uatobus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autobus - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).