augure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,747
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
augure is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \o.ɡyʁ\. Often confused with Aure and autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | augure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for augure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.ɡyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,747 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for augure, with forms such as "aguure", "auggure", and "augrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is augure, spelled A-U-G-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Présage 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.
- 2Prêtre 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.
- 3Personne qui se prétend habile à prévoir l’avenir avec certitude.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aguure,auggure,augrue,auguer,augurre,auugre,uagure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for augure
Misspelling Variants of "augure"
Frequency rank: #19,747 in French
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