corbière
\kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\
The verdict
“corbière” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,200
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à certaines parties du littoral des îles Normandes de la Manche et de la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corbiere · corbière · French
corbière · rank #40,200 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,200
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coral
Nearest frequency peer: coral (-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 « corbière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contract
contract
59,804 corpus weight
- copropriétés
copropriétés
59,803 corpus weight
- coral
coral
59,802 corpus weight
- corbière
corbière
59,801 corpus weight
- Courier
Courier
59,800 corpus weight
- cruciaux
cruciaux
59,799 corpus weight
What this shows « corbière » 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 | corbière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corbière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around corbière (IPA \kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,200 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom donné à certaines parties du littoral des îles Normandes de la Manche et de la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for corbière, with forms such as "ccorbière", "cobrière", and "corbbière". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "côtière", "cormier", "cordier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is corbière, spelled C-O-R-B-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à certaines parties du littoral des îles Normandes de la Manche et de la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corbière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce temps il y eut quelque grand navire d'Espagne, chargé de vins doux, qui se perdit auprès de la corbière.
Si nos corbières, ainsi qu'on l'a pensé, n'étaient que les juchoirs favoris du cormoran, rien ne serait plus naturel que de dériver corbière de corp, d'où la forme corb, corbeau de mer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorbière
- cobrière
- corbbière
- corbiere
- corbirèe
- corbièer
- corbièrre
- corbèire
- coribère
- corrbière
- crobière
- ocrbière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corbière - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).