tribun
\tʁi.bœ̃\
The verdict
“tribun” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,577
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magistrat chargé de défendre les droits et les intérêts du peuple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tribun · tribun · French
tribun · rank #29,577 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,577
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transposer
Nearest frequency peer: transposer (-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 « tribun »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tracas
tracas
70,427 corpus weight
- transpirer
transpirer
70,426 corpus weight
- transposer
transposer
70,425 corpus weight
- tribun
tribun
70,424 corpus weight
- tro
tro
70,422 corpus weight
- troisièmeme…
troisièmement
70,421 corpus weight
What this shows « tribun » 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 | tribun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁi.bœ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tribun »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tribun (IPA \tʁi.bœ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,577 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tribun, with forms such as "rtibun", "tirbun", and "trbiun". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tribus", "tribut", "triton", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tribun, spelled T-R-I-B-U-N.
Definition
- 1Magistrat chargé de défendre les droits et les intérêts du peuple.
- 2Orateur qui s’érige en défenseur des droits, des intérêts du peuple.
- 3Membre du tribunat, corps politique qui avait été créé par la constitution de l’an VIII.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tribun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tribuns ne sont pas des magistrats […] Ils sont non les tribuns du peuple romain, mais les tribuns de la plèbe, toujours appelés ainsi, et toujours nécessairement plébéiens […]
À Rome, le peuple, tant les nouveaux arrivés que ceux qui étaient là depuis plusieurs générations, avait ses propres magistrats, les tribuns, apparus quelques siècles plus tôt pour défendre les intérêts des simples citoyens ; ils pouvaient prendre part aux assemblées du peuple romain (comitia centuriata, comitia tributa) et, dans le pire des cas, s’exprim…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtibun
- tirbun
- trbiun
- tribbun
- tribnu
- tribunn
- triubn
- trribun
- ttribun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tribun - 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
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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).