Aude

\od\

/\od\/ name

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The verdict

“Aude” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,271) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#9,271
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aude · Aude · French

Aude · rank #9,271 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,271
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH atterrissage

Nearest frequency peer: atterrissage (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Aude »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Aude » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Aude vs aux
25% similar
Aude vs axe
25% similar
Aude vs ave
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Aude
PropertyValue
HeadwordAude
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\od\
Letters4
Frequency rank#9,271
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Aude »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Audese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « atterrissage » (#9,270), « auteure » (#9,272), « astuce » (#9,269). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Aude » est au #9,271. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Aude is neighbouring look-alikes ("aux", "axe", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \od\. Frequency #9,271 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aude, with forms such as "adue", "audde", and "aued". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aux", "axe", "ave", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Aude, spelled A-U-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Aude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En ce cas, cela veut dire que l’erreur béhachélienne était largement partagée, y compris dans les médias, où de nombreux articles étaient déjà parus avant qu’Aude Lancelin ne la signale (ça en fait au moins une qui lit).
  2. Le post-partum, « ce moment de flottement qui suit l’accouchement ; le retour à la maison, entre solitude et fatigue, amour profond et mélancolie, est un sujet tabou », explique Aude Pépin.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • adue
  • audde
  • aued
  • uade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aude - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

adue2audde1aued2uade2
Edit distance from "Aude"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Aude"?
"Aude" is spelled A-U-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \od\.
What does "Aude" mean?
As a proper noun, "Aude" means: Prénom féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "Aude"?
"Aude" is commonly confused with "aux", "axe", "ave". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Aude"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Aude" is \od\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Aude" come from?
"Aude" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Aude", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

crue#9,300grey#9,323hais#9,328ping#9,214

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list