auteur·e
\o.tœʁ\
The verdict
“auteur·e” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a rédigé un ouvrage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auteur-e · auteur·e · French
auteur·e · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auteur·e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auteur·e » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auteur·e is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
auteur·e has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is auteur·e, spelled A-U-T-E-U-R-·-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a rédigé un ouvrage.
- 2Personne non-binaire qui a rédigé un ouvrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how auteur·e appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meg-John Barker est un·e auteur·e mondialement reconnu·e et extrêmement influent·e.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.