robes
\ʁɔb\
The verdict
“robes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,895
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de robe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-robes · robes · French
robes · rank #7,895 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,895
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reçue
Nearest frequency peer: reçue (-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 « robes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- représentés
représentés
92,110 corpus weight
- retraités
retraités
92,108 corpus weight
- reçue
reçue
92,107 corpus weight
- robes
robes
92,106 corpus weight
- rédacteur
rédacteur
92,104 corpus weight
- réserver
réserver
92,103 corpus weight
What this shows « robes » 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 | robes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « robes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around robes (IPA \ʁɔb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,895 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de robe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for robes, with forms such as "orbes", "rboes", and "robbes". 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, "ros", "roe", "rôle", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is robes, spelled R-O-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de robe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how robes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La femme du jeune notaire d’X… n’avait pas froid aux yeux. Elle se permettait les décisions brusques et gamines d’une femme qui copiait les robes de « ces dames du château », chantait en s’accompagnant elle-même et portait les cheveux à la chien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orbes
- rboes
- robbes
- robess
- robse
- roebs
- rrobes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of robes - 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 "robes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).