Cuba
\ky.ba\
The verdict
“Cuba” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,600
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus grande île des Caraïbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuba · Cuba · French
Cuba · rank #6,600 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,600
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croyances
Nearest frequency peer: croyances (-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 « Cuba »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- civiles
civiles
93,404 corpus weight
- costumes
costumes
93,403 corpus weight
- croyances
croyances
93,402 corpus weight
- Cuba
Cuba
93,401 corpus weight
- dictature
dictature
93,400 corpus weight
- Diego
Diego
93,399 corpus weight
What this shows « Cuba » 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 | Cuba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ky.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Cuba »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Cuba (IPA \ky.ba\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,600 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cuba, with forms such as "cbua", "ccuba", and "cuab". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cul", "cup", "cut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Cuba, spelled C-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1Plus grande île des Caraïbes.
- 2Pays occupant cette île, dont la langue officielle est l’espagnol et la capitale La Havane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cuba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cuba n’était pas encore colonisée et servait de refuge aux malheureux Indiens que le désespoir chassait d’Hispaniola ; les forêts en étaient remplies, et plus d'une fois ils attaquèrent les naufragés.
Paraphrasant René Depestre à propos de l’Italie qu’il a fréquentée, je veux dire mon amour pour cette Cuba que j’ai, depuis 1970, date de mon premier séjour dans l’île, serrée dans mes bras avec sa volupté lente, somptueuse, tragique, ….
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbua
- ccuba
- cuab
- cubba
- ucba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cuba - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).