Auclair
The verdict
“Auclair” is uncommon French (frequency #54,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,413
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auclair · Auclair · French
Auclair · rank #54,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,413
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attrapez
Nearest frequency peer: attrapez (-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 « Auclair »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asseyait
asseyait
45,591 corpus weight
- atomic
atomic
45,590 corpus weight
- attrapez
attrapez
45,589 corpus weight
- Auclair
Auclair
45,588 corpus weight
- autorisera
autorisera
45,586 corpus weight
- avalant
avalant
45,585 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Auclair » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Auclair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Auclair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Auclair is uncommon French at frequency #54,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Auclair, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Auclair, spelled A-U-C-L-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Auclair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le cadre de l’exposition dédiée à René Crevel au musée des Avelines, Mathias Auclair, directeur du département de musique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, est venu parler de la pratique artistique dans le domaine du spectacle dans le cadre de la conférence Paris à l’époque des Ballets russes.
Je reste dans les valeurs sûres», mentionne Samuel Auclair qui conserve ses précieux objets dans un coffre-fort à la banque.
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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