auquel

/\o.kɛl\/ pron

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,216

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

auquel is aFrenchpron. It means: Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative. Pronounced \o.kɛl\. It ranks #2,216 in French word frequency. Often confused with autel and Aurel.

Key facts for auquel
PropertyValue
Headwordauquel
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPron
IPA\o.kɛl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,216
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of auquel in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for auquel is 6 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.kɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,216 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for auquel, with forms such as "aquuel", "auqeul", and "auqquel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "autel", "Aurel", "auxquels", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is auquel, spelled A-U-Q-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aquuel,auqeul,auqquel,auquell,auqule,auuqel,uaquel

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for auquel

Misspelling Variants of "auquel"

aquuel6auqeul6auqquel7auquell7auqule6auuqel6uaquel6
Misspelling Variants of "auquel"

Frequency rank: #2,216 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auquel"?
"auquel" is spelled A-U-Q-U-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is \o.kɛl\.
What does "auquel" mean?
As a pron, "auquel" means: Pronom relatif qui remplace le nom et établit le lien avec la proposition relative.
What words are commonly confused with "auquel"?
"auquel" is commonly confused with "autel", "Aurel", "auxquels". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "auquel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auquel" is \o.kɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auquel" come from?
"auquel" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.