adverbe

\ad.vɛʁb\

/\ad.vɛʁb\/ noun

The verdict

“adverbe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,103
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot généralement invariable qui se joint avec les verbes, les adjectifs ou les adverbes et qui les nuance de diverses manières.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adverbe · adverbe · French

adverbe · rank #40,103 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,103
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adhérant

Nearest frequency peer: adhérant (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « adverbe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « adverbe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adverbe vs avéré
43% similar
adverbe vs avérée
57% similar
adverbe vs averse
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adverbe
PropertyValue
Headwordadverbe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.vɛʁb\
Letters7
Frequency rank#40,103
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adverbe »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adverbese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « adhérant » (#40,102), « adviendra » (#40,104), « Activision » (#40,101). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adverbe » est au #40,103. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around adverbe (IPA \ad.vɛʁb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,103 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mot généralement invariable qui se joint avec les verbes, les adjectifs ou les adverbes et qui les nuance de diverses manières.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for adverbe, with forms such as "addverbe", "adevrbe", and "advebre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "avéré", "avérée", "averse", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adverbe, spelled A-D-V-E-R-B-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot généralement invariable qui se joint avec les verbes, les adjectifs ou les adverbes et qui les nuance de diverses manières.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adverbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tout est métaphysique dans ces deux parties surtout; et si je veux me soustraire, ou soustraire mes élèves aux idées abstraites, il faudra absolument me borner à dire qu'un nom est un nom, ou un mot qui se décline, même dans les langues où l'on ne décline pas ; qu'un verbe est un verbe, ou un mot qui se conjugue, y eût-il des langues où l'on ne conjuguât…
  2. Un dernier travail de peaufinage consistera à enlever les mots qui ne servent à rien, les adverbes qui alourdissent et vous êtes prêt(e) pour la dernière étape : lisez-le à voix haute, en veillant à garder une tonalité neutre.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addverbe
  • adevrbe
  • advebre
  • adverbbe
  • advereb
  • adverrbe
  • advrebe
  • advverbe
  • avderbe
  • daverbe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adverbe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

addverbe1adevrbe2advebre2adverbbe1advereb2adverrbe1advrebe2advverbe1
Edit distance from "adverbe"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adverbe"?
"adverbe" is spelled A-D-V-E-R-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.vɛʁb\.
What does "adverbe" mean?
As a noun, "adverbe" means: Mot généralement invariable qui se joint avec les verbes, les adjectifs ou les adverbes et qui les nuance de diverses manières.
What words are commonly confused with "adverbe"?
"adverbe" is commonly confused with "avéré", "avérée", "averse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adverbe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adverbe" is \ad.vɛʁb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adverbe" come from?
"adverbe" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adverbe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list