Aunis
\o.nis\
The verdict
“Aunis” is uncommon French (frequency #55,756 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,756
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aunis · Aunis · French
Aunis · rank #55,756 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,756
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attacha
Nearest frequency peer: attacha (-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 « Aunis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ascèse
ascèse
44,248 corpus weight
- asseyant
asseyant
44,247 corpus weight
- attacha
attacha
44,246 corpus weight
- Aunis
Aunis
44,245 corpus weight
- available
available
44,244 corpus weight
- avertissent
avertissent
44,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aunis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aunis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aunis is uncommon French at frequency #55,756 among 6,727 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aunis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce don d’Orient, symbole de la richesse culturelle d’une Aquitaine plurielle - elle se compose d’une marqueterie de seigneuries allant du Berry aux Pyrénées et de l’Aunis au Massif central - au contact des sociétés méridionales, constitue, de bien des façons, l’emblème de la dot immatérielle d’Aliénor : l’apport de la culture vivante et dynamique de la la…
« Montréaliste » dans l’âme, elle ne « dégrognait » pas dans l’Aunis où, selon elle, les bals ne dépassaient pas en éclat les « raouts » de sa ville natale.
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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