avance

/[aˈβ̞ãnse]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,964

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

avance is aSpanishnoun. It means: Película de corta duración que anuncia un largometraje antes de su exhibición. Pronounced [aˈβ̞ãnse]. It ranks #2,964 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with avant and avanzó.

Key facts for avance
PropertyValue
Headwordavance
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈβ̞ãnse]
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,964
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of avance in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for avance is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞ãnse]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,964 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Película de corta duración que anuncia un largometraje antes de su exhibición.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for avance, with forms such as "aavnce", "abance", and "avacne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "avant", "avanzó", "avenue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is avance, spelled A-V-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Película de corta duración que anuncia un largometraje antes de su exhibición.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aavnce,abance,avacne,avancce,avanec,avannce,avanse,avnace,avvance,vaance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avance

Misspelling Variants of "avance"

aavnce6abance6avacne6avancce7avanec6avannce7avanse6avnace6
Misspelling Variants of "avance"

Frequency rank: #2,964 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avance"?
"avance" is spelled A-V-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈβ̞ãnse].
What does "avance" mean?
As a noun, "avance" means: Película de corta duración que anuncia un largometraje antes de su exhibición.
What words are commonly confused with "avance"?
"avance" is commonly confused with "avant", "avanzó", "avenue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "avance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "avance" is [aˈβ̞ãnse]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "avance" come from?
"avance" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.