Strasbourg

\stʁas.buʁ\

/\stʁas.buʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Strasbourg” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,855
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Bas-Rhin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-strasbourg · Strasbourg · French

Strasbourg · rank #2,855 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,855
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH siècles

Nearest frequency peer: siècles (-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 « Strasbourg »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Strasbourg » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Strasbourg
PropertyValue
HeadwordStrasbourg
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\stʁas.buʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,855
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Strasbourg »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Strasbourgse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « siècles » (#2,854), « suivantes » (#2,856), « Simon » (#2,853). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « Strasbourg » est au #2,855. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around Strasbourg (IPA \stʁas.buʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,855 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Strasbourg, with forms such as "srtasbourg", "sstrasbourg", and "starsbourg". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Strasbourg, spelled S-T-R-A-S-B-O-U-R-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
  2. 2
    Ville du Canada, dans la province de Saskatchewan.
  3. 3
    Ancien nom de la commune d’Emir Abdelkader dans la wilaya de Jijel en Algérie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Strasbourg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nos grandes places de guerre, Strasbourg et Metz, les véritables boulevards de notre défense, n’avaient été ni armées, ni approvisionnées.
  2. Les Allemands ont considérablement embelli Strasbourg et nombre d’Alsaciens préféraient l’organisation allemande au laisser-aller français.

This word in other languages

Strasbourg(English)Estrasburgo(Español)Straßburg(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • srtasbourg
  • sstrasbourg
  • starsbourg
  • strabsourg
  • strasbbourg
  • strasborug
  • strasbougr
  • strasbourgg
  • strasbourrg
  • strasbuorg
  • strasoburg
  • strassbourg
  • strrasbourg
  • strsabourg
  • sttrasbourg
  • tsrasbourg

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Strasbourg - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

srtasbourg2sstrasbourg1starsbourg2strabsourg2strasbbourg1strasborug2strasbougr2strasbourgg1
Edit distance from "Strasbourg"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Strasbourg"?
"Strasbourg" is spelled S-T-R-A-S-B-O-U-R-G. The IPA pronunciation is \stʁas.buʁ\.
What does "Strasbourg" mean?
As a proper noun, "Strasbourg" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Bas-Rhin.
What are common misspellings of "Strasbourg"?
Common misspellings include "srtasbourg", "sstrasbourg", "starsbourg", "strabsourg", "strasbbourg". The correct spelling is "Strasbourg".
How do you pronounce "Strasbourg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Strasbourg" is \stʁas.buʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Strasbourg" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Strasbourg", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

coopération16 variantsinstitution16 variantsconnaissances16 variantscomparaison16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list