sobre
\sɔbʁ\
The verdict
“sobre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,781
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est tempérant dans le boire et dans le manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sobre · sobre · French
sobre · rank #8,781 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,781
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sauté
Nearest frequency peer: sauté (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sobre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sandwich
sandwich
91,223 corpus weight
- saurais
saurais
91,222 corpus weight
- sauté
sauté
91,221 corpus weight
- sobre
sobre
91,220 corpus weight
- souvenez
souvenez
91,218 corpus weight
- stades
stades
91,217 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sobre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sobre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔbʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “sobre” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around sobre (IPA \sɔbʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,781 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sobre, with forms such as "osbre", "sbore", and "sobbre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "soir", "sort", "sors", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 sobre, spelled S-O-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est tempérant dans le boire et dans le manger.
- 2Qui ne consomme pas de psychotrope, en particulier l’alcool.
- 3Qui est peu exigeant pour sa nourriture, en parlant des animaux.
- 4Où l’on ne fait pas d’excès de table.
- 5Discret, modéré, qui ne vise pas à l’éclat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sobre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux Russes, généralement sobres, l’infusion de thé leur suffit, paraît-il, non sans une certaine addition de « vodka », qui est l’eau-de-vie moscovite par excellence.
Mais à lui-même aussi, cette mort serrait le cœur qui, d'un coup, anéantissait un homme en pleine vigueur, dans la fleur de l'âge, sans l'avertir par les prodromes les plus légers, un homme sobre comme il l'était, et cela à quelque temps de la retraite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osbre
- sbore
- sobbre
- sober
- sobrre
- sorbe
- ssobre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sobre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "sobre", 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).
What to do next
You've looked up "sobre". Here's where to go from here.
- "sobre" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "soir". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,781 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.