aut
\ˈau̯t\
The verdict
“aut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,365) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,365
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ou exclusif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aut · aut · French
aut · rank #20,365 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,365
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aumônier
Nearest frequency peer: aumônier (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « aut »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attarder
attarder
79,639 corpus weight
- Aubervillie…
Aubervilliers
79,638 corpus weight
- aumônier
aumônier
79,637 corpus weight
- aut
aut
79,636 corpus weight
- avançait
avançait
79,635 corpus weight
- away
away
79,634 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aut » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | aut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \ˈau̯t\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aut »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aut is neighbouring look-alikes ("av", "az", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced \ˈau̯t\. Frequency #20,365 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Ou exclusif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aut, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "av", "az", "aw", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aut, spelled A-U-T.
Definition
- 1Ou exclusif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sit ut est, aut non sit.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).