concubinage
\kɔ̃.ky.bi.naʒ\
The verdict
“concubinage” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,354
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’un couple qui vit ensemble comme si les deux membres étaient mariés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concubinage · concubinage · French
concubinage · rank #43,354 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,354
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concordantes
Nearest frequency peer: concordantes (-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 « concubinage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- columbo
columbo
56,650 corpus weight
- composez
composez
56,649 corpus weight
- concordantes
concordantes
56,648 corpus weight
- concubinage
concubinage
56,647 corpus weight
- conjugaux
conjugaux
56,646 corpus weight
- connectent
connectent
56,645 corpus weight
What this shows « concubinage » 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 | concubinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.bi.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #43,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « concubinage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around concubinage (IPA \kɔ̃.ky.bi.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,354 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État d’un couple qui vit ensemble comme si les deux membres étaient mariés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for concubinage, with forms such as "cconcubinage", "cnocubinage", and "cocnubinage". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "concubine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 concubinage, spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1État d’un couple qui vit ensemble comme si les deux membres étaient mariés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concubinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La réunion de ces circonstances, par un temps où l’on s’inquiète beaucoup trop des nègres, des petits condamnés de la police correctionnelle, pour s’occuper des honnêtes gens qui souffrent, fait que beaucoup de ménages honnêtes restent dans le concubinage, faute de trente francs, dernier prix auquel le Notariat, l’Enregistrement, la Mairie et l’Église pui…
Samuel connut toutes les tortures de la jalousie, et l’abaissement et la tristesse où nous jette la conscience d’un mal incurable et constitutionnel, — bref, toutes les horreurs de ce mariage vicieux qu’on nomme le concubinage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconcubinage
- cnocubinage
- cocnubinage
- concbuinage
- conccubinage
- concubbinage
- concubiange
- concubinaeg
- concubinagge
- concubingae
- concubinnage
- concubniage
- concuibnage
- conncubinage
- conucbinage
- ocncubinage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of concubinage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).