aulus
\o.lys\
The verdict
“aulus” is uncommon French (frequency #95,568 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,568
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose insignifiante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aulus · aulus · French
aulus · rank #95,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,568
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aurochs
Nearest frequency peer: aurochs (+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 « aulus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Audoin
Audoin
4,437 corpus weight
- Auffray
Auffray
4,435 corpus weight
- aulus
aulus
4,433 corpus weight
- aurochs
aurochs
4,432 corpus weight
- autism
autism
4,431 corpus weight
- autocrates
autocrates
4,430 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aulus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aulus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.lys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aulus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aulus is uncommon French at frequency #95,568 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.lys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aulus, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aulus, spelled A-U-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Chose insignifiante.
- 2Sornette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aulus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a toujours cinquante aulus à faire.
Conter des aulus.
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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