auteur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#624
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
auteur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui est à l’origine de quelque chose. Pronounced \o.tœʁ\. It ranks #624 in French word frequency. Often confused with Autun and autour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auteur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for auteur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #624 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 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 auteur, with forms such as "atueur", "auetur", and "auteru". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Autun", "autour", "autrui", 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 auteur, spelled A-U-T-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui est à l’origine de quelque chose.
- 2Personne qui a rédigé un ouvrage de littérature, de science ou d’art.
- 3Production d’un auteur, ce qu’il a écrit.
- 4Inventeur.
- 5Source, celui de qui on a appris quelque nouvelle.
- 6Personne de qui on tient quelque droit.
- 7Ascendant.
- 8Toute personne, groupe de personnes ou organisme, qui assume le choix de l’information présentée sur la carte, et le plus souvent a participé à sa conception et/ou au choix du mode de représentation.
- 9Au sens juridique, personne ou groupe de personnes physiques ou morales détentrices du droit d’auteur attaché à ce document.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atueur,auetur,auteru,auteurr,autteur,autuer,uateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for auteur
Misspelling Variants of "auteur"
Frequency rank: #624 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: