augure

\o.ɡyʁ\

/\o.ɡyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“augure” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,747
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Présage par lequel on juge de l’avenir. Chez les Romains, il se disait des signes que les augures tiraient de l’observation du vol des oiseaux. Aujourd’hui il se dit de tout ce qui peut faire devin...

Corpus desk

Index FR-augure · augure · French

augure · rank #19,747 · 7 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,747
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH atteignait

Nearest frequency peer: atteignait (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « augure »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « augure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

augure vs Aure
50% similar
augure vs autre
67% similar
augure vs aurore
67% similar

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

Key facts for augure
PropertyValue
Headwordaugure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.ɡyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,747
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « augure »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).augurese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « atteignait » (#19,746), « ava » (#19,748), « arrêtant » (#19,744). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « augure » est au #19,747. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around augure (IPA \o.ɡyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,747 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for augure, with forms such as "aguure", "auggure", and "augrue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Aure", "autre", "aurore", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 augure, spelled A-U-G-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Présage par lequel on juge de l’avenir. Chez les Romains, il se disait des signes que les augures tiraient de l’observation du vol des oiseaux. Aujourd’hui il se dit de tout ce qui peut faire deviner l’avenir.
  2. 2
    Prêtre dont la charge était d’observer le vol des oiseaux et la manière dont mangeaient les poulets sacrés, afin d’en tirer des présages pour la conduite des affaires publiques.
  3. 3
    Personne qui se prétend habile à prévoir l’avenir avec certitude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Et la raison encore, dis-moi, je te prie, Sganarelle, qui peut t’inspirer une peur d’un si mauvais augure ?
  2. Les pas lourds des ouvriers qui passaient par escouades, le bruit des voitures de laitiers et de maraîchers frappèrent son oreille comme des sons de bon augure. Elle tressaillit à ce premier réveil de la ville.

Synonyms

auspicedivinationprésagedevin

This word in other languages

augury(English)augurio(Español)augúrio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aguure
  • auggure
  • augrue
  • auguer
  • augurre
  • auugre
  • uagure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of augure - 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.

aguure2auggure1augrue2auguer2augurre1auugre2uagure2
Edit distance from "augure"

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 "augure"?
"augure" is spelled A-U-G-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.ɡyʁ\.
What does "augure" mean?
As a noun, "augure" means: Présage par lequel on juge de l’avenir. Chez les Romains, il se disait des signes que les augures tiraient de l’observation du vol des oiseaux. Aujourd’hui il se dit de tout ce qui peut faire devin...
What words are commonly confused with "augure"?
"augure" is commonly confused with "Aure", "autre", "aurore". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "augure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "augure" is \o.ɡyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "augure" come from?
"augure" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bander#19,751anodin#19,739bidons#19,756aliens#19,735

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

bayer7 variantsbises7 variantsbooks7 variantsadmin7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list