aur
\ˈawɾ\
The verdict
“aur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,504) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Or. Élément chimique de numéro atomique 79 et de symbole Au qui fait partie des métaux de transition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aur · aur · French
aur · rank #49,504 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,504
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH automation
Nearest frequency peer: automation (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aur »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- astor
astor
50,502 corpus weight
- aur
aur
50,497 corpus weight
- automation
automation
50,496 corpus weight
- autoroutiers
autoroutiers
50,495 corpus weight
- avertissant
avertissant
50,494 corpus weight
- aves
aves
50,493 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aur » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈawɾ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aur »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aur is neighbouring look-alikes ("av", "az", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈawɾ\. Frequency #49,504 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Or. Élément chimique de numéro atomique 79 et de symbole Au qui fait partie des métaux de transition.".
aur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "av", "az", "aw", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aur, spelled A-U-R.
Definition
- 1Or. Élément chimique de numéro atomique 79 et de symbole Au qui fait partie des métaux de transition.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).