Autun
\o.tœ̃\
The verdict
“Autun” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,268
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autun · Autun · French
Autun · rank #26,268 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,268
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aurores
Nearest frequency peer: aurores (-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 « Autun »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ardente
ardente
73,737 corpus weight
- Attali
Attali
73,735 corpus weight
- aurores
aurores
73,734 corpus weight
- Autun
Autun
73,733 corpus weight
- bachelor
bachelor
73,732 corpus weight
- balistique
balistique
73,731 corpus weight
What this shows « Autun » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Autun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.tœ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Autun »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Autun (IPA \o.tœ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,268 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Autun, with forms such as "atuun", "autnu", and "auttun". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aut", "auto", "actu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Autun, spelled A-U-T-U-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Autun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a encore à Autun, ville d’origine gallo-romaine, et aux environs, des Gaulois dans les veines desquels il ne coule point de sang latin, et l’abbé Delhonneau était de ce nombre.
[…] ; en 1618, les Jésuites s’établissent à Autun dans l’ancien collège de la ville qu’ils quitteront bientôt ; ils se fixent la même année à Paray-le-Moineau ; […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuun
- autnu
- auttun
- autunn
- auutn
- uatun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Autun - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).