auto-école
\o.to.e.kɔl\
The verdict
“auto-école” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement qui prépare à l’examen du permis de conduire les véhicules automobiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auto-ecole · auto-école · French
auto-école · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | auto-école |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.to.e.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
auto-école is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.to.e.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for auto-école in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is auto-école, spelled A-U-T-O---É-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement qui prépare à l’examen du permis de conduire les véhicules automobiles.
- 2Véhicule d’apprentissage à la conduite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auto-école appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour nombre de Saujonnais, Jeannette Grenon restera cette monitrice d’auto-école, connue pour sa grande gentillesse.
Conduire une auto-école.
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.