automne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,608
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
automne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Une des quatre saisons de l’année. Dans l’hémisphère nord, l’automne astronomique s’étend du 7 août au 7 novembre, l’équinoxe d’automne représentant le milieu de l’automne. L’automne météorologique... Pronounced \o.tɔn\. It ranks #2,608 in French word frequency. Often confused with atome and aumône.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | automne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for automne is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tɔn\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,608 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for automne, with forms such as "atuomne", "auotmne", and "autmone". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "atome", "aumône", "Antoine", and more, 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 automne, spelled A-U-T-O-M-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une des quatre saisons de l’année. Dans l’hémisphère nord, l’automne astronomique s’étend du 7 août au 7 novembre, l’équinoxe d’automne représentant le milieu de l’automne. L’automne météorologique (demi-saison se trouvant entre les saisons chaude et froide) comprend les mois de septembre, octobre et novembre. L’automne calendaire français, enfin, s’étend du 22 septembre (équinoxe d’automne) au 21 décembre (solstice d'hiver). Dans l’hémisphère sud, ce découpage correspond à la saison de printemps.
- 2L’âge qui précède la vieillesse.
- 3Désuétude ; vieillissement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuomne,auotmne,autmone,automen,autommne,automnne,autonme,auttomne,uatomne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "automne"
Frequency rank: #2,608 in French
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