auprèsvsAureWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: auprès is a adverb, Aure is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“auprès” is an adverb and “Aure” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#817
“auprès” frequency rank
#48,927
“Aure” frequency rank
49744
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature auprès Aure
Definition Tout proche, tout contre, à côté… Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Letter map: auprès vs Aure

Shared letters muted; letters that set auprès and Aure apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. auprès runs 6 letters (VVCCVC) against Aure's 4 (VVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
auprès
4 ch
Aure

Role in the sentence - auprès and Aure

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: auprès is anadverb and Aureaname. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49744, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

auprès is recorded at frequency rank #817, classified as anadv, pronounced \o.pʁɛ\. 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 49744, this pair ranks #168,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of auprès vs Aure

Shared letters: aru. Private to "auprès": psè. Private to "Aure": e.

"auprès" · 6 letters · shape VVCCVC  ·  "Aure" · 4 letters · shape VVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Aure ← arue · auer · aurre · uare

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "auprès" and "Aure" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "auprès" is an adverb and "Aure" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "auprès" or "Aure" show up more?
"auprès" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #817 in our French list, against #48,927 for "Aure". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "auprès" vs "Aure" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "auprès" 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 #168,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "auprès" 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 #168,156 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