augurer

\o.ɡy.ʁe\

/\o.ɡy.ʁe\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « augurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for augurer
PropertyValue
Headwordaugurer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\o.ɡy.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,141
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « augurer » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).augurertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « atterrisseur » (#53,140), « asylum » (#53,139), « autocratique » (#53,143). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « augurer » est au #53,141. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pressentir par certaines observations que l’on a faites ou d’après certains signes que l’on a remarqués.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Je n’augure rien de mauvais pour cette nuit.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "augurer"?
"augurer" is spelled A-U-G-U-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \o.ɡy.ʁe\.
What does "augurer" mean?
As a verb, "augurer" means: Pressentir par certaines observations que l’on a faites ou d’après certains signes que l’on a remarqués.
How do you pronounce "augurer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "augurer" is \o.ɡy.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "augurer" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list