robe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,147
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
robe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vêtement long, en forme de fourreau plus ou moins ample, qui enveloppe le corps, tient aux épaules et a des manches ou des ouvertures pour les bras. Pronounced \ʁɔb\. It ranks #2,147 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and roi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | robe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for robe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔb\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,147 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for robe, with forms such as "rboe", "robbe", and "roeb". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "roi", "roy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is robe, spelled R-O-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vêtement long, en forme de fourreau plus ou moins ample, qui enveloppe le corps, tient aux épaules et a des manches ou des ouvertures pour les bras.
- 2Profession de magistrat, d’avocat.
- 3La noblesse de robe.
- 4Profession des ecclésiastiques, des religieux ; il est toujours précédé du possessif.
- 5Pelage ou apparence de quelques animaux, considéré sous le rapport de la couleur.
- 6Couleur du vin, allant du violet à l’ocre.
- 7Enveloppe de certains légumes ou de certains fruits.
- 8Feuille de tabac enveloppant un cigare.
- 9Partie centrale d’une cloche, la plus grande, qui transmet les vibrations.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rboe,robbe,roeb,rrobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for robe
Misspelling Variants of "robe"
Frequency rank: #2,147 in French
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