Robert
\ʁɔ.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“Robert” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,676
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-robert · Robert · French
Robert · rank #1,676 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,676
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revoir
Nearest frequency peer: revoir (-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 « Robert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proches
proches
98,328 corpus weight
- reprendre
reprendre
98,327 corpus weight
- revoir
revoir
98,326 corpus weight
- Robert
Robert
98,325 corpus weight
- réaliser
réaliser
98,324 corpus weight
- récemment
récemment
98,323 corpus weight
What this shows « Robert » 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 | Robert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Robert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Robert (IPA \ʁɔ.bɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,676 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Robert, with forms such as "orbert", "rboert", and "robbert". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Roger", "robot", "robes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Robert, spelled R-O-B-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Robert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beaucoup d’autres prétendants à la victoire seront présents : Guerand Le Pennec vainqueur à Botsorhel : Alexis Robert, récent vainqueur de la Ronde du Viaduc, sans compter sur une sélection du Sultanat d’Oman actuellement de passage en France.
Parmi ceux qui peuvent jouer le rôle d’outsiders, les hurdlers Sasha Zhoya, Just Kwaou-Mathey, Wilhem Belocian (110 m haies) et Wilfried Happio, vice-champion d’Europe du 400 m haies, et les coureurs de 800 m (Gabriel Tual, Benjamin Robert, Rénelle Lamote).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orbert
- rboert
- robbert
- roberrt
- robertt
- robetr
- robret
- roebrt
- rrobert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Robert - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).