augurer
\o.ɡy.ʁe\
The verdict
“augurer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,141 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pressentir par certaines observations que l’on a faites ou d’après certains signes que l’on a remarqués.
Corpus desk
Index FR-augurer · augurer · French
augurer · rank #53,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,141
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atterrisseur
Nearest frequency peer: atterrisseur (-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 « augurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assumées
assumées
46,863 corpus weight
- asylum
asylum
46,862 corpus weight
- atterrisseur
atterrisseur
46,861 corpus weight
- augurer
augurer
46,860 corpus weight
- autocratique
autocratique
46,858 corpus weight
- automatisées
automatisées
46,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « augurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | augurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \o.ɡy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « augurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
augurer is uncommon French at frequency #53,141 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \o.ɡy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pressentir par certaines observations que l’on a faites ou d’après certains signes que l’on a remarqués.".
augurer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is augurer, spelled A-U-G-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pressentir par certaines observations que l’on a faites ou d’après certains signes que l’on a remarqués.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how augurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’augure rien de mauvais pour cette nuit.
L’histoire, bien comprise, fait voir que la guerre évolue toujours dans un certain sens, et que cette direction, cent fois reproduite, facile à démêler en somme à travers les broussailles et les enchevêtrements historiques, est propre à nous faire augurer sa future disparition après sa raréfaction graduelle.
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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