Auxerre
\o.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“Auxerre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,514
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Yonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auxerre · Auxerre · French
Auxerre · rank #13,514 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,514
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspire
Nearest frequency peer: aspire (-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 « Auxerre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arrêtait
arrêtait
86,489 corpus weight
- aspire
aspire
86,488 corpus weight
- Auxerre
Auxerre
86,487 corpus weight
- aînée
aînée
86,486 corpus weight
- banale
banale
86,485 corpus weight
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
86,484 corpus weight
What this shows « Auxerre » 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 | Auxerre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Auxerre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Auxerre (IPA \o.sɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,514 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Yonne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Auxerre, with forms such as "auexrre", "auxere", and "auxerer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "auberge", "auteure", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Auxerre, spelled A-U-X-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Yonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Auxerre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Messieurs, je lève mon verre à la ville d’Auxerre, qui me reçoit avec un entrain si cordial et si chaleureux, et j’adresse à son Maire tous mes compliments.
— Cristi, les belles roses ! C’est épatant. Elles ne vont pas se faner, d’ici Auxerre, Claudine ? Nous couchons à Auxerre ce soir, vous savez. C’est à côté d’ici, cinquante kilomètres. Deux sales côtes, par exemple !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- auexrre
- auxere
- auxerer
- auxrere
- auxxerre
- axuerre
- uaxerre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Auxerre - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).