Narbonne
\naʁ.bɔn\
The verdict
“Narbonne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,445
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narbonne · Narbonne · French
Narbonne · rank #11,445 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,445
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH mutuellement
Nearest frequency peer: mutuellement (-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 « Narbonne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- molécule
molécule
88,559 corpus weight
- mutations
mutations
88,558 corpus weight
- mutuellement
mutuellement
88,557 corpus weight
- Narbonne
Narbonne
88,556 corpus weight
- nerf
nerf
88,555 corpus weight
- never
never
88,554 corpus weight
What this shows « Narbonne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Narbonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \naʁ.bɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Narbonne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Narbonne (IPA \naʁ.bɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,445 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Narbonne, with forms such as "anrbonne", "nabronne", and "narbbonne". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Narbonne, spelled N-A-R-B-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Narbonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers l’an 636 de Rome, le Sénat, sur l’avis de Lucius Crassus, ayant décidé qu’une colonie romaine serait établie à Narbonne, la lisière des Pyrénées fut bientôt munie de postes importants afin de conserver les passages en Espagne et de défendre le cours des rivières.
Selon une légende qui a longtemps eu cours dans le Midi, des Hébreux seraient venus se fixer à Narbonne au temps du roi David, soit au XIᵉ siècle avant l’ère chrétienne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anrbonne
- nabronne
- narbbonne
- narbnone
- narbone
- narbonen
- narobnne
- narrbonne
- nnarbonne
- nrabonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Narbonne - 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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