imberbe
\ɛ̃.bɛʁb\
The verdict
“imberbe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,144
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune homme qui n'a pas encore de barbe, éphèbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imberbe · imberbe · French
imberbe · rank #49,144 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH ime
Nearest frequency peer: ime (+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 « imberbe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ilona
Ilona
50,860 corpus weight
- imagée
imagée
50,859 corpus weight
- imberbe
imberbe
50,857 corpus weight
- ime
ime
50,856 corpus weight
- immunologie
immunologie
50,855 corpus weight
- indexés
indexés
50,854 corpus weight
What this shows « imberbe » 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 | imberbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.bɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « imberbe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around imberbe (IPA \ɛ̃.bɛʁb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,144 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeune homme qui n'a pas encore de barbe, éphèbe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for imberbe, with forms such as "ibmerbe", "imbberbe", and "imbebre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Imbert", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is imberbe, spelled I-M-B-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune homme qui n'a pas encore de barbe, éphèbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imberbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Claire m’est témoin que je n’étais qu’un imberbe mâle dont la vanité roucoulait à hauteur du sexe, au pied du lit des performances d’alcôve.
De même cette réflexion : « Si les imberbes n’avaient pas toutes sortes de qualités éminentes, Dieu – qu’Il soit glorifié ! – aurait-Il permis que ses anges ainsi que tous les habitants du Paradis fussent imberbes ? »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ibmerbe
- imbberbe
- imbebre
- imberbbe
- imbereb
- imberrbe
- imbrebe
- imebrbe
- immberbe
- miberbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imberbe - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imberbe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).