aurore
\o.ʁɔʁ\
The verdict
“aurore” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #11,527 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lueur brillante et rosée qui paraît dans le ciel avant que le soleil soit sur l’horizon.
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 | aurore |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ʁɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aurore” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aurore is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.ʁɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,527 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for aurore, with forms such as "aruore", "auorre", and "auroer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "autre", "aurores", "Aure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is aurore, spelled A-U-R-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Lueur brillante et rosée qui paraît dans le ciel avant que le soleil soit sur l’horizon.
- 2Moment du matin où cette lumière apparaît.
- 3Évènement heureux qui annonce un plus grand bonheur.
- 4Commencement de certaines choses.
- 5Le Levant, les pays qui sont à l’orient.
- 6Synonyme de aurore polaire.
- 7Sauce constituée d’une béchamel et de concentré de tomate.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aruore,auorre,auroer,aurorre,aurroe,aurrore,uarore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aurore - 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.
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 “aurore”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-R-O-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o.ʁɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “autre” - see the side-by-side comparison. aurore vs autre
- 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.