Auvergne
/əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/
"auvergne" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Auvergne” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,161 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #52,161
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Auvergne |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Auvergne” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Auvergne is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/. Corpus data places it at rank #52,161 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Auvergne in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 Auvergne. The correct English form is Auvergne, spelled A-U-V-E-R-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1A former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Etymology
From French Auvergne.
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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Using “Auvergne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-U-V-E-R-G-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.