robb
\ʁɔp\
The verdict
“robb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,697) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,697
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de robben.
Corpus desk
Index FR-robb · robb · French
robb · rank #44,697 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,697
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rituelles
Nearest frequency peer: rituelles (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « robb »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rimer
rimer
55,307 corpus weight
- rios
rios
55,306 corpus weight
- rituelles
rituelles
55,305 corpus weight
- robb
robb
55,304 corpus weight
- romana
romana
55,302 corpus weight
- romani
romani
55,301 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « robb » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | robb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « robb »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for robb is neighbouring look-alikes ("roi", "roy", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʁɔp\. Frequency #44,697 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de robben.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for robb, with forms such as "orbb", "rbob", and "rrobb". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roi", "roy", "roc", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is robb, spelled R-O-B-B.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de robben.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orbb
- rbob
- rrobb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of robb - 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 "robb", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).