Eubée
\ø.be\
The verdict
“Eubée” is uncommon French (frequency #84,779 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,779
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de Grèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eubee · Eubée · French
Eubée · rank #84,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,779
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ETL
Nearest frequency peer: ETL (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Eubée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- estaminet
estaminet
15,227 corpus weight
- ETL
ETL
15,223 corpus weight
- Eubée
Eubée
15,222 corpus weight
- euphémismes
euphémismes
15,221 corpus weight
- Eurobasket
Eurobasket
15,220 corpus weight
- examinerai
examinerai
15,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Eubée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eubée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ø.be\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Eubée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Eubée is uncommon French at frequency #84,779 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ø.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Eubée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Eubée, spelled E-U-B-É-E.
Definition
- 1Île de Grèce.
- 2Une des naïades de la mythologie grecque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Eubée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers l’après-midi le mont Hélias, couronné de blanc et de rose comme une danseuse des Panathénées, indiqua la présence d’Eubée.
Un avion bombardier d’eau s’est écrasé mardi sur l’île d’Eubée, près d’Athènes, en Grèce en luttant contre l’un des incendies qui ravagent le pays.
Synonyms
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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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