autonome
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,909
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
autonome is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se dirige ou se contrôle soi-même. Pronounced \ɔ.tɔ.nɔm\. It ranks #4,909 in French word frequency. Often confused with autonomie and autonomes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autonome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔ.nɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autonome is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.tɔ.nɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,909 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for autonome, with forms such as "atuonome", "auotnome", and "autnoome". 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, "autonomie", "autonomes", "agronome", 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 autonome, spelled A-U-T-O-N-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se dirige ou se contrôle soi-même.
- 2Organisation qui peut prendre ses propres décisions.
- 3Se dit de l’exploitation d’une unité fonctionnelle lorsqu’elle n’est pas placée sous la commande directe de l’ordinateur. La définition ainsi que les termes autonome, hors ligne et en non connecté furent normalisés d’abord par l’ISO/CÉI ISO 2382-10:1979, et repris par l’ISO/CÉI ISO 2382-1:1993.
- 4Se dit d’un matériel lorsqu’il fonctionne indépendamment de tout autre : par exemple un poste de travail déconnecté de l’Internet.
- 5Relatif au mouvement autonome.
- 6Pour un véhicule, se dit d'un véhicule qui peut se mouvoir sans conducteur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuonome,auotnome,autnoome,autonmoe,autonnome,autonoem,autonomme,autoonme,auttonome,uatonome
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Misspelling Variants of "autonome"
Frequency rank: #4,909 in French
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