Auvray
\o.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“Auvray” is uncommon French (frequency #85,490 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,490
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auvray · Auvray · French
Auvray · rank #85,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,490
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avortent
Nearest frequency peer: avortent (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Auvray »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attrapait
attrapait
14,514 corpus weight
- Auer
Auer
14,513 corpus weight
- Auvray
Auvray
14,511 corpus weight
- avortent
avortent
14,510 corpus weight
- aïoli
aïoli
14,509 corpus weight
- baladeuses
baladeuses
14,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Auvray » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Auvray |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Auvray » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Auvray is uncommon French at frequency #85,490 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \o.vʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Auvray in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Auvray, spelled A-U-V-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Auvray appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des master class avec Justine Piluso, Albane Auvray, Amandine Carreau et le chef pâtissier Rémi Bouiller seront aussi proposées au public pour apprendre à sublimer les fruits et légumes de saison.
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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