Orban
\ɔʁ.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“Orban” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,465
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orban · Orban · French
Orban · rank #29,465 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,465
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH optimum
Nearest frequency peer: optimum (-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 « Orban »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- occasionnels
occasionnels
70,539 corpus weight
- oculus
oculus
70,538 corpus weight
- optimum
optimum
70,537 corpus weight
- Orban
Orban
70,536 corpus weight
- orgues
orgues
70,535 corpus weight
- outremer
outremer
70,534 corpus weight
What this shows « Orban » 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 | Orban |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Orban »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Orban (IPA \ɔʁ.bɑ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,465 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Orban, with forms such as "obran", "orabn", and "orbann". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "OTAN", "orbe", "orga", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Orban, spelled O-R-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- obran
- orabn
- orbann
- orbban
- orbna
- orrban
- roban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Orban - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).