Auer

noun

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The verdict

“Auer” is uncommon French (frequency #85,488 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,488
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-auer · Auer · French

Auer · rank #85,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,488
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attrapait

Nearest frequency peer: attrapait (-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 « Auer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Auer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Auer
PropertyValue
HeadwordAuer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#85,488
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Auer » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Auertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « attrapait » (#85,487), « Auvray » (#85,490), « attendraient » (#85,485). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Auer » est au #85,488. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Auer is uncommon French at frequency #85,488 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bec Auer.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Auer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Auer, spelled A-U-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bec Auer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Un troisième Auer éclairait une pièce oblongue, sombre mais très propre et sentant la savonnée.

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 "Auer"?
"Auer" is spelled A-U-E-R.
What does "Auer" mean?
As a noun, "Auer" means: Bec Auer.
What language does "Auer" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Bama#85,494Arfi#85,474berr#85,512boye#85,529

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list