augustus
\a.y.ɣʏs.tʏs\
The verdict
“augustus” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,314
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Août.
Corpus desk
Index FR-augustus · augustus · French
augustus · rank #44,314 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,314
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autrice
Nearest frequency peer: autrice (+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 « augustus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assures
assures
55,690 corpus weight
- attaquèrent
attaquèrent
55,689 corpus weight
- augustus
augustus
55,687 corpus weight
- autrice
autrice
55,686 corpus weight
- auvent
auvent
55,685 corpus weight
- Avallon
Avallon
55,684 corpus weight
What this shows « augustus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | augustus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.y.ɣʏs.tʏs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « augustus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around augustus (IPA \a.y.ɣʏs.tʏs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,314 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Août.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for augustus, with forms such as "aguustus", "auggustus", and "augsutus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "August", "auguste", "augusta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is augustus, spelled A-U-G-U-S-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Août.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aguustus
- auggustus
- augsutus
- augusstus
- augustsu
- augusttus
- augustuss
- augusuts
- augutsus
- auugstus
- uagustus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of augustus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "augustus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).