urbain
\yʁ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“urbain” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,296
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la ville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urbain · urbain · French
urbain · rank #4,296 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,296
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tromper
Nearest frequency peer: tromper (-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 « urbain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- touristes
touristes
95,708 corpus weight
- traverser
traverser
95,707 corpus weight
- tromper
tromper
95,706 corpus weight
- urbain
urbain
95,705 corpus weight
- utilisateur
utilisateur
95,704 corpus weight
- utilisées
utilisées
95,703 corpus weight
What this shows « urbain » 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 | urbain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yʁ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urbain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around urbain (IPA \yʁ.bɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,296 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for urbain, with forms such as "rubain", "ubrain", and "urabin". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "urban", "Usain", "urbaine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is urbain, spelled U-R-B-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la ville.
- 2Qualifie l’urbanité d’une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urbain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit de savoir dans quelle mesure ces aspects sont pris en compte dans la gestion des déchets urbains en Afrique.
Généralement, ces centres urbains secondaires servent aussi de support à la création d'un important réseau de marchés semi-urbains qui se greffent autour de villes secondaires à travers leur appartenance à des circuits intégrés.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rubain
- ubrain
- urabin
- urbainn
- urbani
- urbbain
- urbian
- urrbain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urbain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).