AUC
The verdict
“AUC” is uncommon French (frequency #78,146 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depuis la fondation de la ville [de Rome].
Corpus desk
Index FR-auc · AUC · French
AUC · rank #78,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,146
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aubaines
Nearest frequency peer: aubaines (-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 « AUC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atteindrez
atteindrez
21,859 corpus weight
- atterris
atterris
21,858 corpus weight
- attireront
attireront
21,857 corpus weight
- aubaines
aubaines
21,856 corpus weight
- AUC
AUC
21,855 corpus weight
- Audouin
Audouin
21,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « AUC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | AUC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #78,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « AUC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
AUC is uncommon French at frequency #78,146 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Depuis la fondation de la ville [de Rome].".
No generated misspelling entries exist for AUC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is AUC, spelled A-U-C.
Definition
- 1Depuis la fondation de la ville [de Rome].
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AUC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Évidemment, l’estimation de Denys le Petit en 525 (1278 AUC) de la naissance de Jésus le 25 décembre 753 AUC est plus ou moins exacte selon les indications historiques de la Bible, et on connaît étrangement bien mieux 500 ans d’histoire romaine plutôt que 1 000 ans plus récents du Moyen Âge.
Au moment de la réforme du calendrier par Jules César, en l’an 708 AUC (46 av. J.C.), l’écart entre le calendrier et les saisons était de – 90 jours.
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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