aurore
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,527
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
aurore is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lueur brillante et rosée qui paraît dans le ciel avant que le soleil soit sur l’horizon. Pronounced \o.ʁɔʁ\. Often confused with autre and aurores.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aurore is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for aurore, with forms such as "aruore", "auorre", and "auroer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aurore, spelled A-U-R-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aruore,auorre,auroer,aurorre,aurroe,aurrore,uarore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "aurore"
Frequency rank: #11,527 in French
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