Eastbourne
The verdict
“Eastbourne” is uncommon French (frequency #91,635 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,635
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Sussex de l’Est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eastbourne · Eastbourne · French
Eastbourne · rank #91,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,635
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 201,161
- PHOTO-FINISH détournes
Nearest frequency peer: détournes (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Eastbourne”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- désarmante
désarmante
8,371 corpus weight
- désunis
désunis
8,370 corpus weight
- détaillait
détaillait
8,369 corpus weight
- détournes
détournes
8,368 corpus weight
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
8,366 corpus weight
- effaceur
effaceur
8,362 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Eastbourne” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eastbourne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eastbourne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Eastbourne is uncommon French at frequency #91,635 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Sussex de l’Est.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Eastbourne, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Eastbourne, spelled E-A-S-T-B-O-U-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Sussex de l’Est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Eastbourne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Découverte en 2019 au large d’Eastbourne (sud-est de l’Angleterre), une épave de bateau a enfin livré ses secrets.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Eastbourne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.