auris
The verdict
“auris” is uncommon French (frequency #88,339 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,339
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oreille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auris · auris · French
auris · rank #88,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,339
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Audubon
Nearest frequency peer: Audubon (-3 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 « auris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attrapeur
attrapeur
11,667 corpus weight
- aubergistes
aubergistes
11,666 corpus weight
- Audubon
Audubon
11,665 corpus weight
- auris
auris
11,662 corpus weight
- aveline
aveline
11,659 corpus weight
- avisant
avisant
11,657 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « auris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auris is uncommon French at frequency #88,339 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
auris has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is auris, spelled A-U-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Oreille.
- 2Orillon d’une charrue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
aditum ad aures alicujus habere
ad aures alicujus accidere
Synonyms
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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