auray

noun

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The verdict

“auray” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,659
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bloc de pierre, pièce de bois, mauvais canon, etc., pour amarrer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auray · auray · French

auray · rank #38,659 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,659
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Aumont

Nearest frequency peer: Aumont (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « auray »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « auray » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

auray vs away
60% similar
auray vs Aure
40% similar
auray vs aurez
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for auray
PropertyValue
Headwordauray
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#38,659
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auray »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).aurayse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Aumont » (#38,658), « axés » (#38,660), « atrocement » (#38,657). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « auray » est au #38,659. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around auray, anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,659 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bloc de pierre, pièce de bois, mauvais canon, etc., pour amarrer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for auray, with forms such as "aruay", "auary", and "aurayy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "away", "Aure", "aurez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is auray, spelled A-U-R-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bloc de pierre, pièce de bois, mauvais canon, etc., pour amarrer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how auray appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le bateau fut solidement amarré à un auray; et les matelots s’occupèrent à la chasse ou à la pêche.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aruay
  • auary
  • aurayy
  • aurray
  • aurya
  • uaray

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auray - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aruay2auary2aurayy1aurray1aurya2uaray2
Edit distance from "auray"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auray"?
"auray" is spelled A-U-R-A-Y.
What does "auray" mean?
As a noun, "auray" means: Bloc de pierre, pièce de bois, mauvais canon, etc., pour amarrer.
What words are commonly confused with "auray"?
"auray" is commonly confused with "away", "Aure", "aurez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "auray" come from?
"auray" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "auray", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Assas#38,653bayou#38,670angot#38,646bills#38,677

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

axés6 variantsbaille6 variantscourre6 variantscéda6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list