suburbain
\sy.byʁ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“suburbain” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est situé tout près d’une ville, qui l’entoure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suburbain · suburbain · French
suburbain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suburbain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.byʁ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
suburbain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sy.byʁ.bɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est situé tout près d’une ville, qui l’entoure.".
No misspelling variants are generated for suburbain in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is suburbain, spelled S-U-B-U-R-B-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé tout près d’une ville, qui l’entoure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suburbain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce pavillon [d'Issy] fut la résidence suburbaine de Marguerite de Valois, la première femme de Henri IV, depuis 1606 jusqu’à sa mort en 1615.
Devenu le mâle dominant du clan, il avait réussi à fédérer les familles de la pègre suburbaine.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.