authoress
\o.tɔ.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“authoress” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de autrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-authoress · authoress · French
authoress · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | authoress |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɔ.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
authoress is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.tɔ.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de autrice.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for authoress, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is authoress, spelled A-U-T-H-O-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de autrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how authoress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fête de charité conçue et réalisée par Mᵐᵉ Roger de Beauvoir, et dans laquelle l’élégante authoress (le mot manque chez nous !… Un Anglais appelait Mᵐᵉ Sand une grande écrivisse) […] leur a fait crier : Bis ! bis !
Les ouvrages qui sortirent ensuite de la plume de cette féconde authoress sont trop nombreux et de genres trop divers pour qu’on puisse les rappeler tous.
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.