Corbières
\kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Corbières” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,901
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française de Corbières-en-Provence, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
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 | Corbières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Corbières” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Corbières (IPA \kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,901 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Corbières, with forms such as "ccorbières", "cobrières", and "corbbières". 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, "côtières", "corbière", "carrières", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Corbières, spelled C-O-R-B-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française de Corbières-en-Provence, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
- 3Pays, région naturelle, du département de l’Aude.
- 4Commune du canton de Fribourg en Suisse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorbières
- cobrières
- corbbières
- corbieres
- corbirèes
- corbièers
- corbièress
- corbièrres
- corbièrse
- corbèires
- coribères
- corrbières
- crobières
- ocrbières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Corbières - 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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Using “Corbières”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-R-B-I-È-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔʁ.bjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “côtières” - see the side-by-side comparison. Corbières vs côtières
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.