autres

/\otʁ\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#91

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

autres is anFrenchadj. It means: Pluriel de autre. Pronounced \otʁ\. It ranks #91 in French word frequency. Often confused with autrui and avérés.

Key facts for autres
PropertyValue
Headwordautres
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\otʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#91
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of autres in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for autres is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \otʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #91 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de autre.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for autres, with forms such as "atures", "aurtes", and "auters". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "autrui", "avérés", "ares", 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 autres, spelled A-U-T-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de autre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atures,aurtes,auters,autress,autrres,autrse,auttres,uatres

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autres

Misspelling Variants of "autres"

atures6aurtes6auters6autress7autrres7autrse6auttres7uatres6
Misspelling Variants of "autres"

Frequency rank: #91 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autres"?
"autres" is spelled A-U-T-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \otʁ\.
What does "autres" mean?
As an adj, "autres" means: Pluriel de autre.
What words are commonly confused with "autres"?
"autres" is commonly confused with "autrui", "avérés", "ares". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autres"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autres" is \otʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autres" come from?
"autres" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.