auteure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,272
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
auteure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Créatrice d’une œuvre littéraire. Pronounced \o.tœʁ\. It ranks #9,272 in French word frequency. Often confused with autre and autour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auteure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for auteure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,272 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for auteure, with forms such as "atueure", "aueture", and "auterue". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "autre", "autour", "auteurs", 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 auteure, spelled A-U-T-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Créatrice d’une œuvre littéraire.
- 2Femme à l’origine de quelque chose.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atueure,aueture,auterue,auteuer,auteurre,autteure,autuere,uateure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for auteure
Misspelling Variants of "auteure"
Frequency rank: #9,272 in French
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Nearby French words
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