aurifères
\ɔ.ʁi.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“aurifères” is uncommon French (frequency #78,150 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de aurifère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auriferes · aurifères · French
aurifères · rank #78,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,150
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autorises
Nearest frequency peer: autorises (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aurifères »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AUC
AUC
21,855 corpus weight
- Audouin
Audouin
21,853 corpus weight
- aurifères
aurifères
21,851 corpus weight
- autorises
autorises
21,850 corpus weight
- avail
avail
21,849 corpus weight
- Aveyronnais
Aveyronnais
21,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aurifères » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aurifères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aurifères » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aurifères is uncommon French at frequency #78,150 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔ.ʁi.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de aurifère.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aurifères in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aurifères, spelled A-U-R-I-F-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de aurifère.
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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