Audierne
\o.djɛʁn\
The verdict
“Audierne” is uncommon French (frequency #72,933 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,933
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-audierne · Audierne · French
Audierne · rank #72,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,933
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atténuées
Nearest frequency peer: atténuées (-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 « Audierne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atteignez
atteignez
27,071 corpus weight
- attrister
attrister
27,070 corpus weight
- atténuées
atténuées
27,069 corpus weight
- Audierne
Audierne
27,068 corpus weight
- augmenterai…
augmenteraient
27,067 corpus weight
- aver
aver
27,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Audierne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Audierne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.djɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Audierne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Audierne is uncommon French at frequency #72,933 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.djɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Audierne, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Audierne, spelled A-U-D-I-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Audierne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sardiniers et les pêcheurs de thon de Douarnenez, de Concarneau et d’Audierne, eux, sont les véritables prolétaires de la mer.
La semaine passée, c’est sur des individus de ces mêmes espèces que le virus avait été identifié à Audierne et Beuzec-Cap-Sizun.
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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