auriculaire

\o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\

/\o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“auriculaire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,880
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’oreille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-auriculaire · auriculaire · French

auriculaire · rank #34,880 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #34,880
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Auge

Nearest frequency peer: Auge (-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 « auriculaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « auriculaire » 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).

auriculaire vs articulaire
82% similar

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

Key facts for auriculaire
PropertyValue
Headwordauriculaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#34,880
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auriculaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).auriculairese 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 « Auge » (#34,879), « autrichiennes » (#34,881), « auditive » (#34,878). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « auriculaire » est au #34,880. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around auriculaire (IPA \o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,880 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for auriculaire, with forms such as "aruiculaire", "auirculaire", and "aurciulaire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "articulaire", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is auriculaire, spelled A-U-R-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui a rapport à l’oreille.
  2. 2
    Se rapportant au plus petit doigt de la main.
  3. 3
    Qualifie un témoin qui dépose ce qu’il a entendu de ses propres oreilles.
  4. 4
    Qualifie une confession qui se fait en secret à l’oreille du prêtre.
  5. 5
    Qui a rapport à l’oreillette, cavité du cœur.
  6. 6
    Qui a rapport à la voix.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nerf auriculaire. Conduit auriculaire. Veines auriculaires.
  2. Il est bien mort, dit Scapin se relevant d’un air découragé, l’oreille est froide et le pouls de la veine auriculaire ne bat plus.

This word in other languages

auricular(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aruiculaire
  • auirculaire
  • aurciulaire
  • auricculaire
  • auricluaire
  • auricualire
  • auriculaier
  • auriculairre
  • auricularie
  • auriculiare
  • auricullaire
  • auriuclaire
  • aurriculaire
  • uariculaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aruiculaire2auirculaire2aurciulaire2auricculaire1auricluaire2auricualire2auriculaier2auriculairre1
Edit distance from "auriculaire"

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 "auriculaire"?
"auriculaire" is spelled A-U-R-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\.
What does "auriculaire" mean?
As an adjective, "auriculaire" means: Qui a rapport à l’oreille.
What words are commonly confused with "auriculaire"?
"auriculaire" is commonly confused with "articulaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "auriculaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auriculaire" is \o.ʁi.ky.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auriculaire" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

audacieuses#34,877évacuations#34,832chronomètre#34,935collimateur#34,940

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

bilatéral14 variantsapprécions14 variantsaméliorera14 variantsCharenton14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list