auster
\os.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“auster” is uncommon French (frequency #74,579 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,579
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom que les Latins donnaient au vent du midi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auster · auster · French
auster · rank #74,579 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,579
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aussie
Nearest frequency peer: Aussie (-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 « auster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aureus
aureus
25,425 corpus weight
- Aussie
Aussie
25,423 corpus weight
- auster
auster
25,422 corpus weight
- autodafé
autodafé
25,421 corpus weight
- aza
aza
25,420 corpus weight
- Aziza
Aziza
25,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « auster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \os.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auster is uncommon French at frequency #74,579 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \os.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom que les Latins donnaient au vent du midi.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for auster, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is auster, spelled A-U-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom que les Latins donnaient au vent du midi.
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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