Narbonne

\naʁ.bɔn\

/\naʁ.bɔn\/ name

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Narbonne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Narbonne
PropertyValue
HeadwordNarbonne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\naʁ.bɔn\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,445
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Narbonne »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Narbonnese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mutuellement » (#11,444), « nerf » (#11,446), « mutations » (#11,443). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « Narbonne » est au #11,445. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Narbonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

anrbonne2nabronne2narbbonne1narbnone2narbone1narbonen2narobnne2narrbonne1
Edit distance from "Narbonne"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Narbonne"?
"Narbonne" is spelled N-A-R-B-O-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \naʁ.bɔn\.
What does "Narbonne" mean?
As a proper noun, "Narbonne" means: Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
What are common misspellings of "Narbonne"?
Common misspellings include "anrbonne", "nabronne", "narbbonne", "narbnone", "narbone". The correct spelling is "Narbonne".
How do you pronounce "Narbonne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Narbonne" is \naʁ.bɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Narbonne" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Narbonne", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list