Aure
The verdict
“Aure” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #48,927 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #48,927
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
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 | Aure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Aure is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #48,927 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
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.
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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Using “Aure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “aux” - see the side-by-side comparison. Aure vs aux
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.