aurezvsautreTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#2,658
“aurez” frequency rank
#96
“autre” frequency rank
2754
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aurez autre
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel du futur du verbe avoir. Du même type mais dont l’identité est différente de ce dont on vient de parler.

Where the eye mixes aurez and autre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

5 ch
aurez
5 ch
autre

Why the eye confuses aurez with autre

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: aurez is \o.ʁe\ while autre is \otʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2754, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aurez is recorded at frequency rank #2,658, classified as averb, pronounced \o.ʁe\. 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 2754, this pair ranks #435,543 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of aurez vs autre

Shared letters: aeru. Private to "aurez": z. Private to "autre": t.

"aurez" · 5 letters · shape VVCVC  ·  "autre" · 5 letters · shape VVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aurezaruez · auerz · aurezz · aurrez · aurze · uarez
  • autreature · aurte · auter · autrre · auttre · uatre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aurez" and "autre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aurez" is a verb and "autre" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "aurez" or "autre" show up more?
"autre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #96 in our French list, against #2,658 for "aurez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "aurez" and "autre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aurez" 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 #435,543 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aurez" and "autre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aur vs aurez". 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 #435,543 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