AugevsAureTell them apart

Which to use

“Auge” and “Aure” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#34,879
“Auge” frequency rank
#48,927
“Aure” frequency rank
83806
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Auge Aure
Definition Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes. Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Letter map: Auge vs Aure

Shared letters muted; letters that set Auge and Aure apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Auge and Aure follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Auge
4 ch
Aure

Corpus notes: Auge and Aure

Auge and Aure are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by a single letter - g in “Auge” becomes r in “Aure”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83806, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Auge is recorded at frequency rank #34,879, classified as aname, pronounced \oʒ\. Aure is at rank #48,927, tagged as aname.

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 83806, this pair ranks #14,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Auge vs Aure

Shared letters: aeu. Private to "Auge": g. Private to "Aure": r.

"Auge" · 4 letters · shape VVCV  ·  "Aure" · 4 letters · shape VVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Auge ← ague · aueg · augge · uage
  • Aure ← arue · auer · aurre · uare

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "Auge" and "Aure" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by a single letter - g in “Auge” becomes r in “Aure”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "Auge" or "Aure"?
"Auge" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,879 in our French list, against #48,927 for "Aure". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Auge" and "Aure". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Auge" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Aure" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Auge" and "Aure" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aur vs Aure". 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 #14,134 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