AubagnevsaubaineWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Aubagne is a name, aubaine is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Aubagne” is a name and “aubaine” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,356
“Aubagne” frequency rank
#21,537
“aubaine” frequency rank
52893
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Aubagne aubaine
Definition Commune française, située dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône. Succession aux biens d’un étranger qui meurt dans un pays où il n’est pas naturalisé, dans l’Ancien Régime.

Letter map: Aubagne vs aubaine

Shared letters muted; letters that set Aubagne and aubaine apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. Aubagne (VVCVCCV) and aubaine (VVCVVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
Aubagne
7 ch
aubaine

Part-of-speech tell for Aubagne / aubaine

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Aubagne is aname and aubaineanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - g in “Aubagne” becomes i in “aubaine”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52893, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Aubagne is recorded at frequency rank #31,356, classified as aname. aubaine is at rank #21,537, tagged as anoun, pronounced \o.bɛn\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 52893, this pair ranks #144,515 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Aubagne vs aubaine

Shared letters: abenu. Private to "Aubagne": g. Private to "aubaine": i.

"Aubagne" · 7 letters · shape VVCVCCV  ·  "aubaine" · 7 letters · shape VVCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Aubagne ← abuagne · auabgne · aubagen · aubaggne · aubagnne · aubange · aubbagne · aubgane
  • aubaine ← abuaine · auabine · aubaien · aubainne · aubanie · aubbaine · aubiane · uabaine

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Aubagne" and "aubaine" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Aubagne" is a name and "aubaine" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Aubagne" vs "aubaine" - which ranks higher?
"aubaine" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,537 in our French list, against #31,356 for "Aubagne". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Aubagne" and "aubaine". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Aubagne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aubaine" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #144,515 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Aubagne" and "aubaine" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aubaine vs aubin". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #144,515 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list