Auge

\oʒ\

/\oʒ\/ name

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The verdict

“Auge” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,879) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#34,879
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auge · Auge · French

Auge · rank #34,879 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,879
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH auditive

Nearest frequency peer: auditive (-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 « Auge »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Auge » 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).

Auge vs aux
25% similar
Auge vs axe
25% similar
Auge vs ave
25% similar

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

Key facts for Auge
PropertyValue
HeadwordAuge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\oʒ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#34,879
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Auge »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Augese 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 « auditive » (#34,878), « auriculaire » (#34,880), « audacieuses » (#34,877). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Auge » est au #34,879. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Auge is neighbouring look-alikes ("aux", "axe", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \oʒ\. Frequency #34,879 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Auge, with forms such as "ague", "aueg", and "augge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Auge, spelled A-U-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
  2. 2
    Commune française, située dans le département de la Creuse.
  3. 3
    Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Charente intégrée dans la commune de Auge-Saint-Médard.
  4. 4
    Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département du Jura intégrée dans la commune de Barésia-sur-l’Ain.
  5. 5
    Région naturelle et traditionnelle de Normandie, dite Pays d’Auge.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sans parler d’Auge, qui semble avoir existé dès le temps de l'occupation des Gaules par les Romains, […], le xiiᵉ siècle avait vu naître, en 1134, Signy-le-Grand, qui fut détruit en 1340. Le xiiiᵉ siècle fut témoin, sans aucun doute, de la fondation de Signy-le-Petit et de Beaulieu (1216), de celle de Tarzy et de Fligny, avant 1247; de celle de Brognon (v…
  2. C’était le 5 mai de l'année 1551. Un jeune homme de dix-huit ans et une femme de quarante, sortant d'une petite maison de simple apparence, traversaient côte à côte le village de Montgommery, situé dans le pays d’Auge.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ague
  • aueg
  • augge
  • uage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Auge - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ague2aueg2augge1uage2
Edit distance from "Auge"

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 "Auge"?
"Auge" is spelled A-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \oʒ\.
What does "Auge" mean?
As a proper noun, "Auge" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
What words are commonly confused with "Auge"?
"Auge" 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 "Auge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Auge" is \oʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Auge" come from?
"Auge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

arya#34,872ardu#34,869ante#34,862blés#34,899

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list