Auvergne
\o.vɛʁɲ\
The verdict
“Auvergne” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,659
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province française couvrant le Massif central.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auvergne · Auvergne · French
Auvergne · rank #7,659 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autoriser
Nearest frequency peer: autoriser (-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 « Auvergne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurions
aurions
92,345 corpus weight
- automobiles
automobiles
92,344 corpus weight
- autoriser
autoriser
92,343 corpus weight
- Auvergne
Auvergne
92,342 corpus weight
- avortement
avortement
92,341 corpus weight
- banquier
banquier
92,340 corpus weight
What this shows « Auvergne » 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 | Auvergne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.vɛʁɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Auvergne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Auvergne (IPA \o.vɛʁɲ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,659 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Province française couvrant le Massif central.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Auvergne, with forms such as "auevrgne", "auvegrne", and "auvergen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "auberge", "aubergine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Auvergne, spelled A-U-V-E-R-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Province française couvrant le Massif central.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Auvergne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je viendrai le Vendredi saint… vous faire mes adieux car nous allons passer les fêtes de Pâques en Auvergne. — En Auvergne ? pour vous faire manger par les puces et la vermine, grand bien vous fasse !
— Des femmes pareilles, on devrait les envoyer aux galères. Heureusement qu’il n’y en a guère comme ça, en ces côtés !... Quel pays cela doit être, cette Auvergne !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- auevrgne
- auvegrne
- auvergen
- auverggne
- auvergnne
- auvernge
- auverrgne
- auvregne
- auvvergne
- avuergne
- uavergne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Auvergne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).