artusvsAutunTell them apart

Quick tell: artus is a adjective, Autun is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“artus” is an adjective and “Autun” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,127
“artus” frequency rank
#26,268
“Autun” frequency rank
66395
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature artus Autun
Definition Étroit, serré. Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.

Letter map: artus vs Autun

Shared letters muted; letters that set artus and Autun apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. artus (VCCVC) and Autun (VVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
artus
5 ch
Autun

Part-of-speech tell for artus / Autun

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: artus is anadjective and Autunaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66395, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

artus is recorded at frequency rank #40,127, classified as anadj. Autun is at rank #26,268, tagged as aname, pronounced \o.tœ̃\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 66395, this pair ranks #68,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of artus vs Autun

Shared letters: atu. Private to "artus": rs. Private to "Autun": n.

"artus" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "Autun" · 5 letters · shape VVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • artus ← arrtus · artsu · arttus · artuss · aruts · atrus · ratus
  • Autun ← atuun · autnu · auttun · autunn · auutn · uatun

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "artus" and "Autun" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "artus" is an adjective and "Autun" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "artus" or "Autun" show up more?
"Autun" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,268 in our French list, against #40,127 for "artus". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "artus" and "Autun". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "artus" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Autun" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "artus" and "Autun" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arti vs artus". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #68,008 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list