aux
French, contraction/o/
aux is spelled A-U-X (3 letters) and appears 2,089 times per million words in written French, the 60th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aux is a French contraction meaning “Contraction of à + les ('to the' or 'of the')” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does aux mean in English?
contraction
- 1
Contraction of à + les ('to the' or 'of the')
suffix
- 1
masculinemasculine plural of -al
suffix
- 1
masculineplural of -al
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. Préfixe augmentatif qui indique un accroissement, un doublement. S’utilise devant une voyelle, sinon on utilise au-.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aux
- aug- canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aux?
- /o/
- /o.z‿/
- \oɡ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aux in French?
aux appears 2,089 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).