Aunis
\o.nis\
The verdict
“Aunis” is uncommon French (frequency #55,756 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,756
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancienne province française, qui s’étendait du Marais poitevin au nord, au cours de la Charente au sud, dont les principales villes étaient La Rochelle, Surgères et Rochefort.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aunis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.nis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aunis” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Aunis is uncommon French at frequency #55,756 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne province française, qui s’étendait du Marais poitevin au nord, au cours de la Charente au sud, dont les principales villes étaient La Rochelle, Surgères et Rochefort.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Aunis in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Aunis, spelled A-U-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Ancienne province française, qui s’étendait du Marais poitevin au nord, au cours de la Charente au sud, dont les principales villes étaient La Rochelle, Surgères et Rochefort.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Aunis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-N-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.