aulnes
\on\
The verdict
“aulnes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,794 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,794
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aulne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aulnes · aulnes · French
aulnes · rank #62,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,794
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Auerbach
Nearest frequency peer: Auerbach (-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 « aulnes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attiraient
attiraient
37,210 corpus weight
- attirerait
attirerait
37,209 corpus weight
- Auerbach
Auerbach
37,208 corpus weight
- aulnes
aulnes
37,207 corpus weight
- autan
autan
37,206 corpus weight
- avançais
avançais
37,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aulnes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aulnes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \on\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aulnes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aulnes is uncommon French at frequency #62,794 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \on\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de aulne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aulnes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aulnes, spelled A-U-L-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aulne.
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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