Aure

name

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The verdict

“Aure” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,927) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#48,927
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aure · Aure · French

Aure · rank #48,927 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,927
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH attrapent

Nearest frequency peer: attrapent (-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 « Aure »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Aure » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

Aure vs aux
25% similar
Aure vs axe
25% similar
Aure vs ave
25% similar

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

Key facts for Aure
PropertyValue
HeadwordAure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters4
Frequency rank#48,927
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Aure »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Aurese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « attrapent » (#48,926), « autruches » (#48,928), « avantager » (#48,929). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Aure » est au #48,927. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Aure is neighbouring look-alikes ("aux", "axe", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #48,927 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aure, with forms such as "arue", "auer", and "aurre". 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, "aux", "axe", "ave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Aure, spelled A-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Aujourd'hui, 27 août, des uhlans en assez grand nombre sont à la Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy, Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes et Aure, tandis que l'infanterie se trouve à Somme-Py où il y a eu des réquisitions.
  2. II. — Le 17ᵉ C. A., encadré à droite par le corps colonial qui marche sur Vouziers, à gauche par le 21ᵉ C. A. (IXᵉ armée), aura comme axe général de mouvement, séparant les deux divisions, la ligne : le Mesnil-Ies-Hurlus, Aure, Contreuve, Chuffilly.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arue
  • auer
  • aurre
  • uare

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aure - 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.

arue2auer2aurre1uare2
Edit distance from "Aure"

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 "Aure"?
"Aure" is spelled A-U-R-E.
What does "Aure" mean?
As a proper noun, "Aure" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
What words are commonly confused with "Aure"?
"Aure" is commonly confused with "aux", "axe", "ave". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Aure" come from?
"Aure" 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 "Aure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bold#48,947ains#48,903wren#48,867Wahl#48,863

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list