AurevsautreWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Aure is a name, autre is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#48,927
“Aure” frequency rank
#96
“autre” frequency rank
49023
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Aure autre
Definition Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes. Du même type mais dont l’identité est différente de ce dont on vient de parler.

Letter map: Aure vs autre

Shared letters muted; letters that set Aure and autre apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Aure runs 4 letters (VVCV) against autre's 5 (VVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Aure
5 ch
autre

Grammar separator: Aure vs autre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Aure is aname and autreanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49023, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Aure is recorded at frequency rank #48,927, classified as aname. autre is at rank #96, tagged as anadj, pronounced \otʁ\.

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 49023, this pair ranks #174,110 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Aure vs autre

Shared letters: aeru. Private to "Aure": -. Private to "autre": t.

"Aure" · 4 letters · shape VVCV  ·  "autre" · 5 letters · shape VVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Aure ← arue · auer · aurre · uare
  • autre ← ature · aurte · auter · autrre · auttre · uatre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Aure" and "autre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Aure" is a name and "autre" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Aure" vs "autre" - which ranks higher?
"autre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #96 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Aure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "autre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #174,110 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Aure" and "autre" 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 #174,110 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