Tarbes
\taʁb\
The verdict
“Tarbes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,002
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville française, chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarbes · Tarbes · French
Tarbes · rank #20,002 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,002
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tai
Nearest frequency peer: tai (-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 « Tarbes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supprimées
supprimées
80,002 corpus weight
- surpoids
surpoids
80,001 corpus weight
- tai
tai
80,000 corpus weight
- Tarbes
Tarbes
79,999 corpus weight
- taverne
taverne
79,998 corpus weight
- tendues
tendues
79,997 corpus weight
What this shows « Tarbes » 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 | Tarbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \taʁb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tarbes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Tarbes (IPA \taʁb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,002 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville française, chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Pyrénées.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tarbes, with forms such as "atrbes", "tabres", and "tarbbes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "très", "taré", "tubes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Tarbes, spelled T-A-R-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ville française, chef-lieu du département des Hautes-Pyrénées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tarbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec 37,2°C, la ville de Tarbes, au pied des Pyrénées, n'avait pas eu aussi chaud en septembre depuis près de 60 ans (35,8°C en 1964).
Fourniture et installation de meubles-bar au « foyer du soldat » et au « mess mixte » du quartier Soult, à Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrbes
- tabres
- tarbbes
- tarbess
- tarbse
- tarebs
- tarrbes
- trabes
- ttarbes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tarbes - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).