Which to use
“aucune” and “aucunes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #342
- “aucune” frequency rank
- #17,345
- “aucunes” frequency rank
- 17687
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | aucune | aucunes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de aucun. | Féminin pluriel de aucun. |
Same sound, different letters: aucune vs aucunes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - aucune / aucunes
This is the hard kind. aucune and aucunes are pronounced identically (\o.kyn\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “aucune” sits inside “aucunes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17687, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
aucune is recorded at frequency rank #342, classified as anadj, pronounced \o.kyn\. aucunes is at rank #17,345, tagged as anadj, pronounced \o.kyn\.
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 17687, this pair ranks #381,958 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of aucune vs aucunes
Shared letters: acenu. Private to "aucune": -. Private to "aucunes": s.
"aucune" · 6 letters · shape VVCVCV · "aucunes" · 7 letters · shape VVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "aucune" and "aucunes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "aucune" vs "aucunes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "aucune" / "aucunes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "aucune" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "aucunes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,958 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "aucune" and "aucunes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accuses vs aucunes". 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 #381,958 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.