autrice

/\o.tʁis\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#44,315

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

autrice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est à l’origine de quelque chose. Pronounced \o.tʁis\. Often confused with avarice and Autriche.

Key facts for autrice
PropertyValue
Headwordautrice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\o.tʁis\
Letters7
Frequency rank#44,315
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for autrice is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,315 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 autrice, with forms such as "aturice", "aurtice", and "autirce". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "avarice", "Autriche", "autruche", 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 autrice, spelled A-U-T-R-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est à l’origine de quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Femme qui a rédigé un ouvrage de littérature, de science ou d’art. Écrivaine.
  3. 3
    Génitrice ; ascendante

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aturice,aurtice,autirce,autrcie,autricce,autriec,autrrice,auttrice,uatrice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autrice

Misspelling Variants of "autrice"

aturice7aurtice7autirce7autrcie7autricce8autriec7autrrice8auttrice8
Misspelling Variants of "autrice"

Frequency rank: #44,315 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autrice"?
"autrice" is spelled A-U-T-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \o.tʁis\.
What does "autrice" mean?
As a noun, "autrice" means: Celle qui est à l’origine de quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "autrice"?
"autrice" is commonly confused with "avarice", "Autriche", "autruche". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autrice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autrice" is \o.tʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autrice" come from?
"autrice" 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.