concubine
\kɔ̃.ky.bin\
The verdict
“concubine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,324. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,324
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui partage la vie de quelqu’un sans être mariée avec lui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concubine · concubine · French
concubine · rank #36,324 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,324
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conceptuelle
Nearest frequency peer: conceptuelle (-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 « concubine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- compostage
compostage
63,680 corpus weight
- compromet
compromet
63,679 corpus weight
- conceptuelle
conceptuelle
63,678 corpus weight
- concubine
concubine
63,677 corpus weight
- confirmera
confirmera
63,676 corpus weight
- confréries
confréries
63,675 corpus weight
What this shows « concubine » 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 | concubine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ky.bin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « concubine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around concubine (IPA \kɔ̃.ky.bin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,324 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui partage la vie de quelqu’un sans être mariée avec lui.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for concubine, with forms such as "cconcubine", "cnocubine", and "cocnubine". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "concubinage", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is concubine, spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui partage la vie de quelqu’un sans être mariée avec lui.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concubine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du moment, n’est-ce pas, ajouta-t-il, que la recherche de la paternité est autorisée dans ce cas-là, attendu que ta fille notoirement a vécu avec lui comme concubine.
Tandis que les masseuses noires entrent en action, les moins bousculées trouvent le temps de manger et de potiner avec les concubines d'autres harems.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconcubine
- cnocubine
- cocnubine
- concbuine
- conccubine
- concubbine
- concubien
- concubinne
- concubnie
- concuibne
- conncubine
- conucbine
- ocncubine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of concubine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).