auburn
\o.bœʁn\
The verdict
“auburn” is uncommon French (frequency #52,499 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,499
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De couleur châtain-roux à reflets cuivrés le plus souvent utilisé pour les cheveux. #9D3E0C
Corpus desk
Index FR-auburn · auburn · French
auburn · rank #52,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,499
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH athletics
Nearest frequency peer: athletics (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « auburn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assistances
assistances
47,505 corpus weight
- assumait
assumait
47,504 corpus weight
- athletics
athletics
47,503 corpus weight
- auburn
auburn
47,502 corpus weight
- auditifs
auditifs
47,501 corpus weight
- avalée
avalée
47,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « auburn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auburn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.bœʁn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auburn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auburn is uncommon French at frequency #52,499 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.bœʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "De couleur châtain-roux à reflets cuivrés le plus souvent utilisé pour les cheveux. #9D3E0C".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for auburn, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is auburn, spelled A-U-B-U-R-N.
Definition
- 1De couleur châtain-roux à reflets cuivrés le plus souvent utilisé pour les cheveux. #9D3E0C
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auburn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chapeau de paille ne pouvait parvenir à enfermer les masses de sa chevelure auburn.
Une femme aux cheveux auburn s’approche du véhicule, un carton dans les bras
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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