Aurillac
\o.ʁi.jak\
The verdict
“Aurillac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,967
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cantal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aurillac · Aurillac · French
Aurillac · rank #26,967 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atténuation
Nearest frequency peer: atténuation (-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 « Aurillac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- armagnac
armagnac
73,037 corpus weight
- arrondis
arrondis
73,036 corpus weight
- atténuation
atténuation
73,035 corpus weight
- Aurillac
Aurillac
73,034 corpus weight
- australe
australe
73,033 corpus weight
- australienn…
australiennes
73,032 corpus weight
What this shows « Aurillac » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aurillac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ʁi.jak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Aurillac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Aurillac (IPA \o.ʁi.jak\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,967 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cantal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aurillac, with forms such as "aruillac", "auirllac", and "aurilac". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Aurillac, spelled A-U-R-I-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département du Cantal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aurillac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mercredi 5 août 40.– À Vichy, on s’exalte sur les travaux des champs et l’artisanat rustique. Aujourd’hui, c’est « la fameuse galoche d’Aurillac » qui est à l’honneur.
À ma mort on trouverait des inédits dans mes tiroirs, une méditation sur la mer, une comédie en un acte, quelques pages érudites et sensibles sur les monuments d’Aurillac, de quoi faire une plaquette qui serait publiée par les soins de mes anciens élèves.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aruillac
- auirllac
- aurilac
- aurilalc
- aurillacc
- aurillca
- aurlilac
- aurrillac
- uarillac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aurillac - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).