Austerlitz
\os.tɛʁ.litz\
The verdict
“Austerlitz” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,328. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,328
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de Moravie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-austerlitz · Austerlitz · French
Austerlitz · rank #27,328 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,328
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aumône
Nearest frequency peer: aumône (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Austerlitz »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attirante
attirante
72,676 corpus weight
- attiser
attiser
72,675 corpus weight
- aumône
aumône
72,674 corpus weight
- Austerlitz
Austerlitz
72,673 corpus weight
- autocollant
autocollant
72,672 corpus weight
- aéronefs
aéronefs
72,671 corpus weight
What this shows « Austerlitz » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Austerlitz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \os.tɛʁ.litz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Austerlitz »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Austerlitz (IPA \os.tɛʁ.litz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,328 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Austerlitz, with forms such as "asuterlitz", "ausetrlitz", and "aussterlitz". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "austérité", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Austerlitz, spelled A-U-S-T-E-R-L-I-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Commune de Moravie.
- 2Bataille d'Austerlitz.
- 3Gare de Paris-Austerlitz.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Austerlitz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Napoléon vainquit à Austerlitz la coalition russo-autrichienne lors de la bataille des Trois Empereurs le 2 décembre 1805.
Soleil d’Austerlitz, dont nous percevons encore par ricochet, un siècle et demi plus tard, la menue monnaie sur les toits pentus du Louvre, qui nous font face.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asuterlitz
- ausetrlitz
- aussterlitz
- austelritz
- austeriltz
- austerlittz
- austerlitzz
- austerlizt
- austerllitz
- austerltiz
- austerrlitz
- austrelitz
- austterlitz
- autserlitz
- uasterlitz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Austerlitz - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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