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aune

noun

aune is spelled A-U-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aune means “An old French cloth measure, varying around the country, but at Paris equivalent to 0.95 of an English ell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aune is aunes.

How many letters and syllables are in aune?

Letters4: A-U-N-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is aune?

Aune appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce aune?

    Aune has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of aune

    • aunes plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does aune mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      An old French cloth measure, varying around the country, but at Paris equivalent to 0.95 of an English ell.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does aune come from?

    From French. See alnage.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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