urbains
\yʁ.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“urbains” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,477
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de urbain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urbains · urbains · French
urbains · rank #8,477 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,477
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH UNESCO
Nearest frequency peer: UNESCO (-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 « urbains »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tirée
tirée
91,527 corpus weight
- trajectoire
trajectoire
91,526 corpus weight
- UNESCO
UNESCO
91,525 corpus weight
- urbains
urbains
91,524 corpus weight
- valider
valider
91,523 corpus weight
- vends
vends
91,522 corpus weight
What this shows « urbains » 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 | urbains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yʁ.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urbains »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around urbains (IPA \yʁ.bɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,477 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de urbain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for urbains, with forms such as "rubains", "ubrains", and "urabins". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "urban", "urbain", "urbaine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 urbains, spelled U-R-B-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de urbain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how urbains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vision médiatique du monde entretient une illusion aujourd’hui toute puissante et démobilisatrice au possible : les choses importantes de notre vie sociale auraient lieu uniquement dans ce que les mass médias font apparaître comme le centre du monde en l’hyper-médiatisant ; c’est la vie hypermoderne des grands centres urbains et certaines entités puiss…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rubains
- ubrains
- urabins
- urbainns
- urbainss
- urbaisn
- urbanis
- urbbains
- urbians
- urrbains
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urbains - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).