aura
\o.ʁa\
The verdict
“aura” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #364) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #364
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le « corps subtil », qui entourerait le corps physique. De forme ovoïde, l’aura changerait de couleur selon l’évolution, l’état émotionnel ou de santé du sujet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aura · aura · French
aura · rank #364 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #364
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH an
Nearest frequency peer: an (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aura”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- vue
vue
99,640 corpus weight
- êtes
êtes
99,639 corpus weight
- an
an
99,638 corpus weight
- aura
aura
99,637 corpus weight
- dessus
dessus
99,636 corpus weight
- film
film
99,635 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aura” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | aura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “aura” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aura is neighbouring look-alikes ("aux", "aus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \o.ʁa\. Frequency #364 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aura, with forms such as "arua", "auar", and "aurra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aux", "aus", "ava", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aura, spelled A-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Le « corps subtil », qui entourerait le corps physique. De forme ovoïde, l’aura changerait de couleur selon l’évolution, l’état émotionnel ou de santé du sujet.
- 2Prolongement, résonance d’un livre, d’une œuvre d’art dans la sensibilité.
- 3Sensation subjective vague, toujours la même chez chaque malade, qui permet à celui-ci de prévoir l’imminence d’une crise. Elle peut être motrice (mouvement d’un doigt, d’un membre), sensitive, sensorielle (olfactive, auditive, visuelle, etc.), psychique, etc. L’aura est surtout fréquente dans l’épilepsie, l’asthme, la migraine et l’hystérie.
- 4Autrefois, émanation subtile du liquide spermatique qui semblait nécessaire pour la fécondation.
- 5Atmosphère qui entoure certains êtres.
- 6Image, réputation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] les scènes bucoliques de Giandomenico [Tiepolo] : les paysans, les paysages saisis comme en abyme après leur promenade du matin, avec ces tons un peu pâles qui donnaient une aura poétique aux gestes les plus simples.
On racontait que sa mère était une grande malade : cette épreuve dotait Marguerite d’une aura romanesque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arua
- auar
- aurra
- uara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aura - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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- "aura" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "aux". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #364 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
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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.