auguste

\o.ɡyst\

/\o.ɡyst\/ adj

The verdict

“auguste” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,950
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est imposant, respectable, digne de vénération.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auguste · auguste · French

auguste · rank #5,950 · 9 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,950
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH audio

Nearest frequency peer: audio (-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 « auguste »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « auguste » 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).

auguste vs autiste
71% similar
auguste vs augustin
75% similar
auguste vs augustus
75% similar

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

Key facts for auguste
PropertyValue
Headwordauguste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\o.ɡyst\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,950
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auguste »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).augustese 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 « audio » (#5,949), « bornes » (#5,951), « assiette » (#5,948). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « auguste » est au #5,950. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around auguste (IPA \o.ɡyst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,950 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for auguste, with forms such as "aguuste", "augguste", and "augsute". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "autiste", "augustin", "augustus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 auguste, spelled A-U-G-U-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est imposant, respectable, digne de vénération.
  2. 2
    Qualifie l’histoire des empereurs romains.
  3. 3
    Qualifiait un papier fait à Rome avec les meilleures parties des papyrus d’Égypte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Interrogez les augustes membres de la dynastie capétienne ; ils vous diront que la plus sacrée de toutes les propriétés est, sans contredit, le droit héréditaire, dont ils ont joui de toute antiquité, […].
  2. Monsieur le Président, Messieurs les représentants, Jamais je n’aurais imaginé que ma première rencontre depuis 1974 avec votre auguste assemblée aurait lieu dans cette bonne et hospitalière ville de Genève.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aguuste
  • augguste
  • augsute
  • auguset
  • augusste
  • augustte
  • augutse
  • auugste
  • uaguste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aguuste2augguste1augsute2auguset2augusste1augustte1augutse2auugste2
Edit distance from "auguste"

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 "auguste"?
"auguste" is spelled A-U-G-U-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.ɡyst\.
What does "auguste" mean?
As an adjective, "auguste" means: Qui est imposant, respectable, digne de vénération.
What words are commonly confused with "auguste"?
"auguste" is commonly confused with "autiste", "augustin", "augustus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "auguste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auguste" is \o.ɡyst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auguste" come from?
"auguste" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list