Augias
\o.ʒjas\
The verdict
“Augias” is uncommon French (frequency #97,675 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,675
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des Argonautes, fils d’Hélios, roi d’Élis, il possède d’immenses écuries, qu’Héraclès reçoit l’ordre de nettoyer dans le cadre de ses douze travaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-augias · Augias · French
Augias · rank #97,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,675
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attaqueraient
Nearest frequency peer: attaqueraient (-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 « Augias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atque
atque
2,328 corpus weight
- attaqueraie…
attaqueraient
2,327 corpus weight
- Augias
Augias
2,326 corpus weight
- authentifiés
authentifiés
2,324 corpus weight
- avalisé
avalisé
2,323 corpus weight
- Aventador
Aventador
2,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Augias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Augias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ʒjas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Augias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Augias is uncommon French at frequency #97,675 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.ʒjas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des Argonautes, fils d’Hélios, roi d’Élis, il possède d’immenses écuries, qu’Héraclès reçoit l’ordre de nettoyer dans le cadre de ses douze travaux.".
Augias has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Augias, spelled A-U-G-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Un des Argonautes, fils d’Hélios, roi d’Élis, il possède d’immenses écuries, qu’Héraclès reçoit l’ordre de nettoyer dans le cadre de ses douze travaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Augias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je commencerai par lui dire que ses services, c’est les écuries d’Augias!
Nettoyer les écuries d’Augias.
This word in other languages
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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