autruche
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,107
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
autruche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plus grand oiseau actuel, à cou très long, inapte au vol en raison de l’atrophie de ses ailes et de l’absence d’un bréchet, mais aux pattes puissantes lui conférant une haute rapidité à la course, ... Pronounced \o.tʁyʃ\. Often confused with autruches and autrice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autruche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tʁyʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for autruche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o.tʁyʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,107 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for autruche, with forms such as "aturuche", "aurtuche", and "autrcuhe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "autruches", "autrice", "Autriche", 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 autruche, spelled A-U-T-R-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus grand oiseau actuel, à cou très long, inapte au vol en raison de l’atrophie de ses ailes et de l’absence d’un bréchet, mais aux pattes puissantes lui conférant une haute rapidité à la course, et endémique à l’Afrique.
- 2Viande de l’oiseau.
- 3Peau tannée de l’oiseau.
- 4Grand mangeur.
- 5Personne qui fait exprès de ne pas voir un danger qui le menace et dont il ne veut pas se soucier. → voir politique de l’autruche
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aturuche,aurtuche,autrcuhe,autrruche,autrucche,autruceh,autruchhe,autruhce,auttruche,auturche,uatruche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autruche
Misspelling Variants of "autruche"
Frequency rank: #23,107 in French
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