Elbe
\ɛlb\
The verdict
“Elbe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,345
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve d’Europe centrale qui prend sa source en République tchèque dans les monts des Géants et, après avoir traversé l’Allemagne, se jette dans la mer du Nord par un long estuaire d’une centaine d...
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Index FR-elbe · Elbe · French
Elbe · rank #26,345 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,345
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effrayés
Nearest frequency peer: effrayés (-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 « Elbe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détectée
détectée
73,659 corpus weight
- détestes
détestes
73,658 corpus weight
- effrayés
effrayés
73,657 corpus weight
- Elbe
Elbe
73,656 corpus weight
- elliptique
elliptique
73,655 corpus weight
- embouteilla…
embouteillage
73,654 corpus weight
What this shows « Elbe » 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 | Elbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛlb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Elbe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Elbe (IPA \ɛlb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,345 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fleuve d’Europe centrale qui prend sa source en République tchèque dans les monts des Géants et, après avoir traversé l’Allemagne, se jette dans la mer du Nord par un long estuaire d’une centaine d...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Elbe, with forms such as "eble", "elbbe", and "eleb". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "élu", "eve", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Elbe, spelled E-L-B-E.
Definition
- 1Fleuve d’Europe centrale qui prend sa source en République tchèque dans les monts des Géants et, après avoir traversé l’Allemagne, se jette dans la mer du Nord par un long estuaire d’une centaine de kilomètres sur lequel se trouve Hambourg, premier port d’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Elbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers l’an 800 de l'ère chrétienne, l’Elbe et son affluent la Saale séparaient deux peuples : sur la rive gauche habitaient des Allemands; sur la rive droite des Slaves.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eble
- elbbe
- eleb
- ellbe
- lebe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Elbe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).