autochtone
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,307
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
autochtone is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est issu du lieu même où il se manifeste, par opposition à étranger. Pronounced \o.tok.ton\. Often confused with autochtones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autochtone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \o.tok.ton\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autochtone is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tok.ton\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,307 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for autochtone, with forms such as "atuochtone", "auotchtone", and "autcohtone". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "autochtones", 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 autochtone, spelled A-U-T-O-C-H-T-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est issu du lieu même où il se manifeste, par opposition à étranger.
- 2Se dit d’une espèce végétale ou animale originaire de l’endroit où on la trouve, et qui n’a donc pas été importée ni transplantée.
- 3Dont la présence dans un lieu peut être établie depuis de nombreuses générations, par opposition aux colons ou aux étrangers
- 4Dont les ancêtres sont originaires du lieu, ou qui se considère comme tel.
- 5Relatif aux peuples qui occupaient déjà le sol américain avant l’arrivée des Européens.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuochtone,auotchtone,autcohtone,autocchtone,autochhtone,autochotne,autochtnoe,autochtoen,autochtonne,autochttone,autocthone,autohctone,auttochtone,uatochtone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autochtone
Misspelling Variants of "autochtone"
Frequency rank: #15,307 in French
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