faubourgs
\fo.buʁ\
The verdict
“faubourgs” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,314
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de faubourg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faubourgs · faubourgs · French
faubourgs · rank #25,314 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,314
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figuration
Nearest frequency peer: figuration (+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 « faubourgs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fabian
Fabian
74,690 corpus weight
- facultatif
facultatif
74,689 corpus weight
- faubourgs
faubourgs
74,687 corpus weight
- figuration
figuration
74,686 corpus weight
- flatter
flatter
74,685 corpus weight
- flip
flip
74,684 corpus weight
What this shows « faubourgs » 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 | faubourgs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.buʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faubourgs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around faubourgs (IPA \fo.buʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,314 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de faubourg.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for faubourgs, with forms such as "afubourgs", "fabuourgs", and "faubbourgs". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "faubourg", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faubourgs, spelled F-A-U-B-O-U-R-G-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de faubourg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faubourgs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici : de jeunes silhouettes minces — françaises, Courrèges — aux croisées, se désignant un relief qu’elles ont suscité derrière les faubourgs du sud-est, s’écrient : « Piero della Francesca ! » en martelant la dernière syllabe. Débâtardisé, Piero.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afubourgs
- fabuourgs
- faubbourgs
- fauborugs
- faubougrs
- faubourggs
- faubourgss
- faubourrgs
- fauboursg
- faubuorgs
- fauoburgs
- ffaubourgs
- fuabourgs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faubourgs - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).