Aude
"aude" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aude” is uncommon English (frequency #89,122 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,122
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Carcassonne.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aude · Aude · English
Aude · rank #89,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,122
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Astbury
Nearest frequency peer: Astbury (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Aude”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- asse
asse
10,884 corpus weight
- Assiniboine
Assiniboine
10,882 corpus weight
- Astbury
Astbury
10,881 corpus weight
- Aude
Aude
10,879 corpus weight
- Ayoub
Ayoub
10,873 corpus weight
- backburner
backburner
10,872 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aude” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aude |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aude” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aude is uncommon English at frequency #89,122 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Aude in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Aude. The correct English form is Aude, spelled A-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Carcassonne.
- 2A river in the departments of Pyrénées-Orientales, Hérault, Aude and Ariège, Occitania, France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anne-Marie Charvet, a former prefect of Aude, said more than 10 years ago that the department was becoming a haven for what she termed “micro-groups” specialising in alternative medicine – like reflexology or energy therapy – and other methods she said flirted with charlatanism but were “likely to attract psychologically fragile people”.
Etymology
From French Aude.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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