aumônière
\o.mo.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“aumônière” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ecclésiastique dont la fonction ordinaire était de distribuer les aumônes que son couvent ou son chapitre destinait aux pauvres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aumônière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.mo.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aumônière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aumônière is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.mo.njɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
aumônière has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aumônière, spelled A-U-M-Ô-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ecclésiastique dont la fonction ordinaire était de distribuer les aumônes que son couvent ou son chapitre destinait aux pauvres.
- 2Ecclésiastique attachée à certains corps, à certains établissements, pour enseigner la religion et les diriger spirituellement.
- 3Sorte de bourse qu’on portait anciennement à la ceinture et contenant l’argent destiné à l’aumône.
- 4Sorte de bourse destinée à recueillir l’argent des quêtes lors des cérémonies religieuses.
- 5Mets constitué d’une garniture, qui peut être sucrée ou salée, enfermée dans une pâte, qui peut être à crêpe, repliée et fermée par un cordon alimentaire.
- 6Vide-poche en tissu se trouvant au dos des sièges dans les automobiles, voire les véhicules à deux roues. On les trouve aussi dans les autobus, les avions, etc.
- 7Genre de ruche en forme de cloche.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aumônière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-M-Ô-N-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o.mo.njɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.