auvent
\o.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“auvent” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,316
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit toit en saillie, aménagé ordinairement au-dessus des entrées de bâtiments, pour protéger de la pluie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-auvent · auvent · French
auvent · rank #44,316 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,316
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autrice
Nearest frequency peer: autrice (-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 « auvent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attaquèrent
attaquèrent
55,689 corpus weight
- augustus
augustus
55,687 corpus weight
- autrice
autrice
55,686 corpus weight
- auvent
auvent
55,685 corpus weight
- Avallon
Avallon
55,684 corpus weight
- bafouée
bafouée
55,682 corpus weight
What this shows « auvent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « auvent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around auvent (IPA \o.vɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,316 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit toit en saillie, aménagé ordinairement au-dessus des entrées de bâtiments, pour protéger de la pluie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for auvent, with forms such as "auevnt", "auvennt", and "auventt". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "aven", "avant", "Avent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is auvent, spelled A-U-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Petit toit en saillie, aménagé ordinairement au-dessus des entrées de bâtiments, pour protéger de la pluie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how auvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait beau temps, au lavoir communal ou sous les auvents d’aisseaux qu’on échangeait d’oreille à oreille de petites réflexions et qu’on se faisait part d’observations particulières.
Comme aux très anciennes bâtisses, l’auvent du toit dévale presque jusqu'au sol, en guise de hangar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- auevnt
- auvennt
- auventt
- auvetn
- auvnet
- auvvent
- avuent
- uavent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of auvent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).