aux herbes
The verdict
“aux herbes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Au printemps, en parlant de l'âge du bétail.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aux herbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aux herbes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aux herbes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Au printemps, en parlant de l'âge du bétail.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aux herbes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 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 aux herbes, spelled A-U-X- -H-E-R-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Au printemps, en parlant de l'âge du bétail.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aux herbes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-U-X- -H-E-R-B-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.