austères
\ɔs.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“austères” is uncommon French (frequency #51,898 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de austère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-austeres · austères · French
austères · rank #51,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auteures
Nearest frequency peer: auteures (+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 « austères »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ATV
ATV
48,106 corpus weight
- Aubusson
Aubusson
48,105 corpus weight
- austères
austères
48,103 corpus weight
- auteures
auteures
48,102 corpus weight
- autodestruc…
autodestruction
48,101 corpus weight
- babines
babines
48,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « austères » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | austères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔs.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « austères » en français
Rare enough to double-check
austères is uncommon French at frequency #51,898 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɔs.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de austère.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for austères, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is austères, spelled A-U-S-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de austère.
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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