autoroute

\o.to.ʁut\

/\o.to.ʁut\/ noun

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The verdict

“autoroute” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,516
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Route réservée à la circulation automobile, sur laquelle était bannies les circulations hippomobile et piétonne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autoroute · autoroute · French

autoroute · rank #3,516 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,516
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH autonomie

Nearest frequency peer: autonomie (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « autoroute »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « autoroute » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

autoroute vs autoroutes
90% similar
autoroute vs autoroutier
82% similar
autoroute vs autorité
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for autoroute
PropertyValue
Headwordautoroute
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.to.ʁut\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,516
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autoroute »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.autoroutese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « autonomie » (#3,515), « campagnes » (#3,517), « atteinte » (#3,514). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autoroute » est au #3,516. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around autoroute (IPA \o.to.ʁut\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,516 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for autoroute, with forms such as "atuoroute", "auotroute", and "autoorute". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "autoroutes", "autoroutier", "autorité", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is autoroute, spelled A-U-T-O-R-O-U-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Route réservée à la circulation automobile, sur laquelle était bannies les circulations hippomobile et piétonne.
  2. 2
    Route à chaussées séparées pour chacun des deux sens et sans croisements, conçue pour la circulation rapide des automobiles.
  3. 3
    Voie ou parcours rapide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how autoroute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ils eurent vite l'impression d'être les seuls touristes, visitant une vieille station oubliée par le chemin de fer, les autoroutes et les agences de voyage. A part Geneviève, rien qui valût le détour !
  2. Juste avant l’Italie, l’autoroute d’ailleurs est somptueuse, la montagne d’un côté, abrupte, de la caillasse, et tout autour la mer dans laquelle on plonge.

Synonyms

autostradehighway

This word in other languages

motorway(English)autopista(Español)Autobahn(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atuoroute
  • auotroute
  • autoorute
  • autorotue
  • autorouet
  • autoroutte
  • autorroute
  • autoruote
  • autrooute
  • auttoroute
  • uatoroute

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autoroute - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

atuoroute2auotroute2autoorute2autorotue2autorouet2autoroutte1autorroute1autoruote2
Edit distance from "autoroute"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autoroute"?
"autoroute" is spelled A-U-T-O-R-O-U-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.to.ʁut\.
What does "autoroute" mean?
As a noun, "autoroute" means: Route réservée à la circulation automobile, sur laquelle était bannies les circulations hippomobile et piétonne.
What words are commonly confused with "autoroute"?
"autoroute" is commonly confused with "autoroutes", "autoroutier", "autorité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autoroute"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autoroute" is \o.to.ʁut\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autoroute" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autoroute", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

autonomie#3,515campagnes#3,517capacités#3,518chevalier#3,522

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

origines11 variantsouvriers11 variantspossession11 variantsgagnant11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list