automnal
\o.tɔ.nal\
The verdict
“automnal” is uncommon French (frequency #68,831 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,831
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’automne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-automnal · automnal · French
automnal · rank #68,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,831
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auditoires
Nearest frequency peer: auditoires (-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 « automnal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attitrée
attitrée
31,173 corpus weight
- attouchement
attouchement
31,172 corpus weight
- auditoires
auditoires
31,171 corpus weight
- automnal
automnal
31,170 corpus weight
- avenu
avenu
31,169 corpus weight
- avirons
avirons
31,167 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « automnal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | automnal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \o.tɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « automnal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
automnal is uncommon French at frequency #68,831 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \o.tɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for automnal in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is automnal, spelled A-U-T-O-M-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’automne.
- 2Qui se rapporte à la période de la vieillesse.
- 3Qualifie la partie du bréviaire qui contient l’office des trois mois de l’automne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how automnal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut se perdre dans le silence automnal des allées du parc de Steglitz.
Comme l’espérance était la dominante du printemps, une terreur secrète s’empare de l’âme automnale, la fait glisser jusqu’à l’horreur d’elle-même et jusqu’au désespoir.
This word in other languages
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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