Auvergne
/əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/
"auvergne" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Auvergne” is uncommon English (frequency #52,161 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,161
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-auvergne · Auvergne · English
Auvergne · rank #52,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,161
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH attentively
Nearest frequency peer: attentively (-1 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 “Auvergne”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Atalanta
Atalanta
47,844 corpus weight
- athenaeum
athenaeum
47,843 corpus weight
- atropine
atropine
47,842 corpus weight
- attentively
attentively
47,841 corpus weight
- Auvergne
Auvergne
47,840 corpus weight
- azimuth
azimuth
47,839 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Auvergne” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Auvergne” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Auvergne is uncommon English at frequency #52,161 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əʊˈvɜː(ɹ)n/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).