Robin des Bois
\ʁɔ.bɛ̃ de bwa\
The verdict
“Robin des Bois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Héros légendaire du Moyen Âge anglais réputé pour son adresse au tir à l’arc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Robin des Bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.bɛ̃ de bwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Robin des Bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Robin des Bois is 14 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɔ.bɛ̃ de bwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Robin des Bois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Robin des Bois, spelled R-O-B-I-N- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Héros légendaire du Moyen Âge anglais réputé pour son adresse au tir à l’arc.
- 2Brigand vertueux, justicier hors-la-loi qui « vole les riches pour donner aux pauvres ».
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Using “Robin des Bois”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-B-I-N- -D-E-S- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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