auteures
\o.tœʁ\
The verdict
“auteures” is uncommon French (frequency #51,899 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,899
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de auteure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auteures · auteures · French
auteures · rank #51,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,899
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH austères
Nearest frequency peer: austères (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « auteures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aubusson
Aubusson
48,105 corpus weight
- austères
austères
48,103 corpus weight
- auteures
auteures
48,102 corpus weight
- autodestruc…
autodestruction
48,101 corpus weight
- babines
babines
48,100 corpus weight
- badine
badine
48,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « auteures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auteures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « auteures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
auteures is uncommon French at frequency #51,899 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de auteure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for auteures, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is auteures, spelled A-U-T-E-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de auteure.
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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